Intellectual Property

What is Intellectual Property Law (IP)?

If we imagine a circle and divide it in three parts, we will realize that the domain world of intellectual property consists of three separate parts: trademarks, copyrights and patents. All these institutes are very specific, capricious and demand specific attention to it.

What are the Trademarks. And why do you need to protect it?

Trademarks are intended to identify the product and primarily served to distinguish one product from another. Nevertheless, there are many international issues in practice when two companies with the same brand names collide. Therefore, it is very important to receive international or at least local protection of trademark in the country where it was originally registered. As a rule, the process of registration is very complicated in each jurisdiction.

Specialists of Legal Kornet have special qualification of Patent attorney that allow to represent your interest in the territory of the Russian Federation and the United States via our partners.

What are the patents and when you need to call for it?

A patent is another institute of legal law designed to protect interests of inventors, designers, or creators of a utility model.

As not once IP/IT consultants were very involved in software patenting, they will be at your disposal to assist regardless of whether you are in the United States or the Russian Federation.

Copyrights are as a dichotomy of idea and form

Copyrights are another institute of legal law devoted to protect original works of authorship. Beginning from the 19th century all countries pulled their efforts to resolve the issue of creation and protection copyrighted works originated all over the world. Berne and Paris Conventions as well as Agreement on TRIPS partially resolved this issue. Now the work created in a country that is member of the convention is a subject to automatic protection in another country.

Nevertheless, you must remember that copyright protects only a form of creation while an idea is not secured by the law. In this regard, it is very important to issue rights regardless of whether you are an author-employee or an employer. While we were working at such companies as I free and Albrecht and Vitte, we did lot of work related the drafting of copyright agreements.

Trade secret

Another important issue is a trade secret, or in other words protection of your ideas. However, the last one requires careful protection and remains as such (secret) till it is not known to the third parties and rightholder is taking reasonable measures to protect it.

As you see, the world of IP is very tricky and tempting. You can forget about legal part of your creative work, Legal Kornet is ready to assist you.

Our lawyers graduated from international schools. Managing partner studied in one of the most prestigious schools in the United States, Chicago Kent College of law in international intellectual property program (LLM) and then passed the NY Bar exam

Legal Kornet with its leader has gained considerable experience in protection of intellectual property that’s why we would like to offer you following ways of cooperation with us