PRACTICE AREAS
Trademarks: registration, protection, legal support, trademark searches
Patents, inventions, utility models, designs, patent searches
Copyright
Litigation
Trademarks filing, prosecution, and litigation
Trademark filing, prosecution and litigation is an important service provided by Company "Vakhnina & Partners". We deliver full and comprehensive complex of works concerning our clients' trademarks - beginning with their design and creation and up to the protection of the client's rights.
Our experience allowed us to create and use efficient methodologies of work and deliver high quality services. With every year more Russian and International Companies trust the protection of their trademarks and other Intellectual Property to Company "Vakhnina & Partners".
We have a slogan to describe our position in protection of your rights: «Everyone can register a Trademark. We know how to protect it!». It is rich experience of our specialists in the area of Trademarks protection that let us also develop and provide additional type of services: «Business to Business» and «Lawyers to Lawyers».
We consult leading Russian and Foreign law firms in the area of Intellectual Property protection, and our lawyers and attorneys are invited to prepare an independent opinion for their cases, to deliver an expertise to a Court. Our specialists also take invitation to joint law hearings along with our clients - law firms in need of professional knowledge in Intellectual Property.
One of our Company's unique features we use every day and at many court hearings is our own Trademarks and Applications Search System "VAL" containing actual information about applications and trademarks filed for Russian Federation. The Trademark Search systems gives our trademark specialist a great opportunity to analyse our client's trademarks and find similar trademarks as well as all related information - within just few seconds, even during court hearing!
Patenting of inventions, designs and utility models
Patent department of "Vakhnina & Partners" provides to our clients all necessary services related to patenting of inventions, designs, utility models, as well as computer programs and databases.
Involving our global network of affiliates and reliable partnerships with IP companies in CIS/ex-USSR countries, "Vakhnina & Partners" ensures protection of inventions (and other IP) of its clients from all over the world.
Having extensive education and knowledge in such areas as pharmacology, chemistry, biochemistry, engineering, medicine and others, leading specialists and attorneys of our Patent Department have broad experience in patent prosecution and litigation.
Professional translators of our Company carry out accurate translations of patents, related documents, as well as requests of examination from Patent Offices.
Patent Attorneys of "Vakhnina & Partners" represent our clients before Russian Patent Office, Eurasian Patent Office and Russian Chamber of Patent Disputes, as well as in Russian IP Court.
Copyright protection
Legal department of "Vakhnina & Partners" consults clients and provides services in the field of copyright protection, litigate in courts of various jurisdictions, protecting interests of authors.
We help to register and protect artworks in various fields of creative activity, including scripts and lyrics.
Among our clients there are many famous Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, French, American and Italian artists, singers, actors, popular performers, as well as leading Russian television and radio media companies, newspapers and magazines.
Legal services
High quality of works carried out by "Vakhnina & Partners" at the stage of registration of inventions and trademarks provides reliable protection of our Clients' intellectual property in conflict situations.
Wide experience allows us to successfully conduct cases in court not only those of regular clients, but also of Clients who appealed after the the conflict situation developed.
Senior partner of the Company, Dr. Tatiana Vakhnina, has the title of Honorary Advocate of the Russian Federation. Having a degree of a PhD in Law, she is a Trademark and Patent Attorney of the Russian Federation and Eurasian Patent Attorney with unique experience in registration and protection of Intellectual Property for over 35 years.
Lawyers of the Company carry out transfer of rights, ensure the introduction of changes and additions to the existing protection documents, conduct cases in the Chamber of Patent Disputes and courts of various jurisdictions.
