PETERKA PARTNERS advises and represents our clients on all aspects of intellectual property creation, protection, and exploitation, as well as enforcement of the clients’ IP rights and defence against third parties’ IP-based claims. As many of our cases are multi-jurisdictional, our IP practice group is composed of lawyers, across all of our offices, who are used to working in, or coordinating, multi-national teams.
Our clients range from start-ups to multi-nationals and leaders in their industries, and operate in a wide range of sectors, such as pharmaceuticals & life sciences, software development & database design, professional services, machinery, automotive, transportation, energy & infrastructure, the food industry, consumer products, retail, e-commerce, luxury, sports, media & publishing, and telecommunications, as well as non-profit organizations and governmental agencies.
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ABRO INDUSTRIES
Providing a full range of services to ABRO INDUSTRIES, INC., a well-known American company producing top-quality automotive, industrial and consumer products, in the protection of their intellectual property rights and the fight against the distribution of counterfeited goods, including applying various judicial and non-judicial remedies, cancellation of trademark registrations, enforcement of court decisions, etc.
ACCSYS
Legal support to AccSys, a US-based IT company, regarding its contractual relations with Ukrainian software developers. Our assistance included complex consultancy outlining key legal and tax risks and suggesting a model for protection of IP rights, with further implementation of the advisory in agreements with Ukrainian developers.
COMCARD
Comprehensive legal support with regard to entering the UA market by a developing US IT company. We advised on tax, currency control, intellectual property, regulatory and other legal aspects of engaging Ukrainian software developers.
COMITÉ INTERPROFESSIONNEL DU VIN DE CHAMPAGNE
Legal assistance to Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne (France), the trade association that represents the interests of independent Champagne producers (vignerons) and Champagne Houses, regarding opposing, in Ukraine, the registration of a trademark which includes the “Provence” geographical indication.
Legal assistance to Comité interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne – the French trade association that represents the interests of independent Champagne producers (vignerons) and Champagne Houses. Its mandate is to promote the wines of Champagne and to protect the trademark Champagne AOC across the world. Our assistance included the preparation of three applications regarding opposition to the "Shampanie" trademark registration, which is similar to the "Champagne" geographical indication, and filing them to the Ukrainian IP office.
DECEUNINCK
Comprehensive legal advice to Deceuninck Rus LLC, a member of a worldwide group offering products for the interiors and exteriors of buildings, including drafting licence agreements regarding its trademark and negotiations with Rospatent (the Russian patent authority) regarding trademark registration.
DR MULLER PHARMA
Representing a leading Czech manufacturer of medical devices, curative cosmetics and food supplements, Dr. Müller Pharma and its Slovak sister company, in litigation before Slovak courts against a Slovak company engaging in unfair competition and distributing products infringing on the intellectual property rights of the client.
Comprehensive legal advice to and representing Czech pharmaceutical company Dr. Müller Pharma, and its Slovak branch, in trademark and unfair competition litigation.
EPIROC
Advising EPIROC UKRAINE LLC, a world leader in industrial and construction equipment and tools, regarding the possibility of protection in Ukraine of the Atlas Copco trademark, working with the relevant open databases and drafting a legal opinion regarding this issue.
EVENTOS SINGULARES FLANDERS
Legal assistance to a company from the Fever group, the leading global live-entertainment discovery platform, on various matters related to contracts with business partners, including intellectual property, namely in connection with Candlelight Concerts organized in the Czech Republic and the related documents, in particular revisions of lease agreements, and agreements with artists for performances.
EW IP
Legal advisory services to EW IP GmbH, a company belonging to the European Wellness Biomedical Group (EW Group), an international multi-award-winning European biomedical group, related to contracts with a business partner in the Czech Republic, and the related intellectual property issues.
FCVP (FC VIKTORIA PLZEŇ)
Long term legal advisory services to a leading Czech football club and participant in the UEFA competitions (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League), on contractual relationships with the players and business partners including licesing matters in the field of TV rights , on real estate matters connected with the stadium refurbishment and in proceedings before the court and football authorities of the Football Association of the Czech Republic, UEFA and FIFA.
FINANCE NEW EUROPE
Representation of the publisher of a professional magazine in a matter concerning the protection of rights to trademarks before the Industrial Property Office.
FRP
Drafting of General Terms and Conditions for the client's Ukrainian subsidiary regarding the provision of data transmission services through the client's fire department call and notification system and other services, including matters related to sublicensing of the mobile applications developed by the client.
INAO
PETERKA & PARTNERS successfully represented the Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO), a French governmental agency whose mission covers the protection of French protected designations of origin and geographical indications, as a claimant in opposition proceedings lasting four years related to a Czech trademark application in conflict with a French protected designation of origin. PETERKA & PARTNERS offices in the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia or Belarus have represented the INAO in a few dozen similar cases.
KLOSTERFRAU
Representing the German company, Klosterfrau, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, in the matter of an application for the cancellation of a trademark registered in the Slovak Republic to a third party.
KONICA MINOLTA
Complex legal assistance to Japanese company Konica Minolta, regarding trademark infringements, unauthorised parallel imports of products, brand damage and counterfeit products in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
MOLL
Comprehensive legal advisory services to Moll Funktionsmöbel GmbH, a German manufacturer of furniture and a global leader in expandable children’s desks, chairs, and organizational furniture in connection with advertising and competition law, including intellectual property violation and unfair competition issues.
NAAXO
Legal advisory to Naaxo Licensing Solutions Ltd., holder of stage and merchandising rights related to the musical Roméo et Juliette, les enfants de Vérone in claims towards a Czech producer of the musical.
PAPIER TIGRE
Representing a French company Papier Tigre, a creator and a manufacturer of design products for desk, house and written correspondence, as a defendant, in proceedings before Czech courts on alleged infringement of a three-dimensional EU trade mark, as well as a claimant in proceedings on invalidity of the same trade mark.
POLPHARMA
Polpharma: Advising Zakłady Farmaceutyczne Polpharma S.A., and other companies from the same group, the largest Polish manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and a leader on the Polish pharmaceutical market, on its internal platform for intellectual property created by an employee within the work duties of employees (employment works, invention belonging to enterprise, employment industrial designs and utility models). The services of our law firm have included advisory with regard to preparing internal documents ensuring that the intellectual property rights belong to the company as the employer.
SODEXO
Advising Sodexo, one of the largest food services and facilities management companies, in connection with possible steps against untrue or misleading information published in the media. Legal advisory to the Slovak subsidiary of the Sodexo group, one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world, in relation to various issues connected with public procurement law and its impact on the clientʼs possible business activities.
VIATRIS
Long-term legal advisory services to Mylan, one of the world's largest manufacturers of generic pharmaceuticals, and to its local CEE subsidiaries, on various regulatory matters of pharmaceutical law, including price regulation of pharmaceuticals, standards and templates on interactions with HCPs, patent protection, dispute over a domain name, global/local SOPs, data protection matters, adapting websites to local legislations, as well as on various corporate and employment law issues, including of a secondment of lawyers to Mylan's Czech and Slovak subsidiaries for a period of a year and a half.
YASAR
Representing Yadex International Gmbh, a German subsidiary of the well-known Turkish multi-sector group Yaşar Holding, in opposition proceedings against two national trademark applications filed by a competitor before the Czech Industrial Property Office.
ZVOLENSKA MLIEKAREN
Comprehensive advisory services to Schreiber Slovakia s.r.o. (formerly SENOBLE Central Europe, s.r.o.), active in the production of dairy products, namely with the registration and transfer of trademarks, drafting of framework contracts, assistance with corporate changes, and with the temporary assignment of employees and litigation matters.
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