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 Achour Law firm is widely recognized for its incisive advice and assistance in this area in relation to the different ways in which clients may register and protect their intellectual property rights and capitalize on such rights through the selling and licensing of the same in Tunisia and around the globe. Our services include securing patents, trademarks and copyrights; defending intellectual property against infringement and allegations of infringement; providing business counseling and proactive strategies to enhance and protect intellectual property assets; and providing litigation services. Some examples: - Conducting audits to identify intellectual property in need of protection to maximize clients competitive advantage;
- Counseling on whether to patent and/or copyright intellectual property, or to treat it as a trade secret;
- Counseling on advertising and advertising claims;
- Advising clients about the pitfalls associated with premature publication or disclosure of their ideas or inventions;
Enforcing patents and trademarks : - Conducting trademark, patent and copyright searches;
- Determining whether an invention is indeed new and patentable;
- Counselling on ways to design products around existing patents to avoid infringement;
- Preparing patent applications and handling filings with the European Patent and Trademark Office;
- Defending against trademark and patent infringement claims;
- Advising on the use of trademarks, patents and copyrights as collateral for loans;
- Advising on the importance and enforceability of confidentiality and non-competition agreements;
- Preparing and negotiating patent, trademark, copyright and software license agreements;
- Counselling clients on licensing others to market their products;
- Advising clients on acquiring licenses to market their own products;
- Assessing the value of patents and trademarks to be purchased or sold as assets;
- Determining the value of patents, trademarks and copyrights;
- Identifying non-obvious intellectual property that should be protected to ensure that clients retain their competitive advantage. Such items can include customer and supplier lists and business processes and procedures.
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