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In today's increasingly knowledge-driven
commercial environment, intellectual property (IP) is an
extremely important consideration in all business decisions. The
exploitation, protection and enforcement of IP rights especially
in high-tech or IT driven companies is a key element of a
company's measure of success or otherwise.
No business has the luxury of ignoring intangible capital and
the importance of IP rights accumulated in its goodwill and in
reputational aspects.
Our team specialise in:
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Commercialising IP Rights,
including copyright, patents, trade marks,
anti-counterfeiting & piracy, digital rights management,
know-how, confidential information, and trade secrets
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Protecting and Securing IP Rights,
such as buying and assigning IP rights, auditing IP assets,
licensing, negotiating and contracts drafting, mergers and
joint ventures, competition law, franchising, domain name
protection & framework distribution and agency agreements
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Brand Protection, such as trade
mark and design registrations in Malta & the EU, and
implementing anti-piracy & anti-counterfeiting measures
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Enforcing Intellectual Property
Rights, by detecting and preventing infringements of
rights and using alternate dispute resolution methods and
commercial litigation, if necessary.
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Anti-Counterfeiting,
Implementation of & Assistance in Programmes to
mitigate against the effect of counterfeiting
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Maria
Chetcuti Cauchi is the partner in charge of our IP & Gaming Law
Practice Groups and advises on all aspects of registrations,
assignments, licensing and compliance. Maria is also a prominent intellectual property
law specialist representing parties in domain name and trademark
infringement issues. Maria is a registered TM & patent attorney in
Malta and in the EU. [full
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Silvana
Zammit is also an IP & gaming law specialist advising on licensing,
regulatory, e-commerce and ICT law matters relating to the IT &
general commercial industries. Silvana
is an active member of the IP Team and leads other associates n
complex IP matters. [full
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Ruth
Baldacchino is
as an associate in the Intellectual
Property, Art &
Cultural Property and
Gaming Law Practice Groups and has acted for significant trading companies
and groups in issues of unfair competition, trademark infringements,
franchising, anti-counterfeiting and parallel trading.
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Charles Cassar
is as an
associate in the IP &
Financial Services Practice Groups and has acted for various
companies in negotiating use of trademarks and territorial
restrictions, assignments, franchising and territorial limitations
thereof as well as general IP matter
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