Are you developing a product, software, brand, or content and need your intellectual property structured so it is protected, transferable, and enforceable? In IP, it is not only trademark registration that matters. Contracts, internal processes, know-how handling, licensing models, and the ability to react quickly to infringements both offline and online are equally critical.
PROXIMA LEGAL helps you protect and commercialise your IP from strategy and registrations through licensing and transactions to enforcement and disputes.
How we can support you
1) IP strategy and IP audit
- mapping your rights and risks including know-how and trade secrets
- setting protection priorities based on your business and target markets
- IP readiness for investors, banks, or due diligence
2) Trademarks design and branding
- trademark strategy including classes and territorial coverage
- portfolio management, conflict monitoring, renewals
- brand licensing, franchising, co-branding and marketing use
3) Copyright software and digital content
- software and digital product development contracts including deliverables and source code
- assignments, licensing and open-source compliance
- terms of use for websites, applications and online services
4) Know-how trade secrets and internal set-up
- NDAs and contractual frameworks for know-how protection
- internal confidentiality regime, access rights and records
- employment and contractor arrangements so the IP truly belongs to you
5) Licensing and transactional documentation
- licences, sublicences and royalty models
- IP transfers and IP carve-outs in M&A and restructurings
- IP clauses in distribution, supply and outsourcing contracts
6) Enforcement and anti-infringement protection
- pre-action strategy and rapid measures including evidence preservation
- protection on online platforms and against content misuse
- anti-counterfeiting and coordinated actions against fakes including customs measures
7) Domain disputes and unfair competition
- domain disputes and brand misuse
- unfair competition, misleading designations and parasitic practices
- representation in court and arbitration proceedings
Typical matters we handle
- you are launching a brand and want to protect it in the Czech Republic and the EU
- you are developing software and need certainty that IP transfers to you
- an investor comes in and you need an IP audit and documentation clean-up
- a partner breaches a licence or uses your brand outside the agreed scope
- you face counterfeits, online misuse, or domain disputes