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Consultation in Intellectual Property in an all around view

ADEXE is firm of strategic consultancy to companies, specialised in the protection, management and valorisation of Industrial and Intellectual Property rights.

The services that ADEXE provides are an expression of many years of experience of its professionals, combined with a passion for applied scientific research and wide-ranging legal insight.

Adexe

Attention to detail and respect for the client are the cornerstones of our philosophy.

  • - Evaluation of the patentability of an invention
  • - Prior art and freedom-to-operate searches
  • - Drafting and filing of patent applications for invention and utility models at the competent Offices
  • - Prosecution and defence of patent applications and patents before the competent authorities
  • - Validation of European patents and requests of European patents with unitary effect
  • - Oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office, third-party observations
  • - Surveillance and payment of maintenance fees
  • - Technical expert advice in civil proceedings for infringement and invalidity
  • - Supervision of competitors' patent activities
  • - Representation before the Unified Patent Court
  • - Patent and know-how protection in the context of Research & Development collaborations and with regard to employees' and university-related inventions
  • - Technical and patent analysis for estimates of patent portfolio values and due diligence
  • - Areas of specialisation: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biomedicine, Metallurgy, Construction, Mechanics, Packaging Technology, Electrochemistry, Metal and Wood Processing, Agri-Food and Environmental Technologies
  • - Trademark registrability checks
  • - Prior art searches aimed at identifying identical and/or similar trademarks, and drafting of the related opinion
  • - Filing of applications for trademark registration with the competent national, supranational and foreign trademark offices
  • - Representation in opposition proceedings before the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) or the UIBM (Italian Patent and Trademark Office)
  • - Representation in appeals against decisions of the EUIPO and the UIBM
  • - Representation in proceedings for revocation and invalidity of a trademark before the EUIPO
  • - Legal assistance in the protection of distinctive signs, in the context of litigations or office actions in non-EU countries
  • - Technical expert opinions on civil infringement proceedings
  • - Expert opinions and estimates of the value of trademarks
  • - Trademark surveillance and competition surveillance
  • - Pre-filing consultancy and assistance in the evaluation of the designs/models to be protected
  • - Prior art searches for identical and/or similar designs/models, with related opinion
  • - Filing of applications for registration of designs with the competent national, supranational and foreign offices
  • - Competitor surveillance and design/model surveillance, aimed at contrasting designs/models that are identical/similar to one’s own
  • - Technical expert opinions on civil infringement proceedings
  • - Pre-filing consultancy and assistance in the assessment of the accumulation of protections (plant varieties – patents for invention), of the breeder's exemption and the farmer's privilege
  • - Preparation and filing of applications for registration of plant varieties with the competent Offices
  • - Competition surveillance and research on plant varieties and variety denominations
  • - Prosecution and defence of plant variety applications and plant variety rights before the competent authorities
  • - Development of contracts for the exploitation and/or transfer of industrial property rights and contracts aimed at positioning and developing the brand (Assignment Agreements, License Agreements, Coexistence Agreements, Distribution Agreements)
  • - Copyright, domain names, distinctive signs
  • - Due diligence in IP
  • - Expert opinion and value estimates of distinctive signs, designs and patents
  • - Representation in Domain Name Reassignment Procedures before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • - Drafting of agreements / declarations aimed at protecting confidential information and know-how (confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements - NDAs, confidentiality declarations, material transfer agreements - MTAs)
  • - Defence of IP rights before the competent courts
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