Pretrial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Pretrial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

We would like to invite you to consider a business proposal from the Intellectual Property Department of GRATA Law Firm to carry out pretrial protection of intellectual property rights.

Surely any of you has come across with a situation when you were offered a fake product instead of original one. Moreover, the fake signs are such evident that there is no doubt of falsity of the product.  Indeed, such cases are common not only in our country but all over the world. In this case this is not only consumer’s problem but the producer of the original products (owner of intellectual property) who also suffers huge losses due to the “initiative” of separate groups of “businessmen”.

Therefore, we assume that such commercial offer shall interest all trademarks’ and patents’ owners regardless of their form of activity – whether rendering services or production/sale of goods.

In accordance with legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, violation of intellectual property rights entails civil, administrative or criminal liability. In this connection violation shall mean the following activity:

• Illegal use of a trademark;
• Unauthorized bringing a trademark to a civil turnover;
• Illegal use of industrial property object;

There are different reasons to try to resolve violation of intellectual property rights in pretrial way. Among such reasons there are uncertainty of intellectual property rights’ owner with regards to one or another infringer, possibility to terminate infringer’s activity without litigation process and search of evidence. Therefore, the Intellectual Property Department would like to offer you the following ways of pretrial protection of your intellectual property. This ways include such legal acts as:

1. Preparation of a Cease and Desist letter.
2. Application to the Law enforcement agencies.
3. Application to the Customs authorities.

We hope that the present information will be helpful for you. If you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would be glad to offer you our assistance.