Intellectual Property Law
Extensive experience in trademarks and other intellectual property matters enables us to offer a full range of protection and assistance that foreign companies and individuals require in the Iranian market place. We understand the clients' concerns about protecting their intellectual property rights and we vigorously prosecute infringement acts affecting the clients’ trademarks, patents, and industrial designs. More importantly, we help the clients to develop and implement comprehensive preventing, monitoring and redressing strategies to assure that their intellectual property rights receive maximum protection under Iranian laws and regulations. To better meet the clients’ needs, Milani law firm formed a full-service intellectual property practice department. We strive to be in the forefront of assisting the clients fight against intellectual property infringement.
An industrial design is the ornamental or aesthetic aspect of an article. The design may consist of three-dimensional features, such as the shape or surface of an article, or of two-dimensional features, such as patterns. Industrial designs are applied to a wide variety of products of industry and handicrafts; from technical and medical instruments to watches, jewelries, and other luxury items, electrical appliances to vehicles and architectural structures; from textile designs to leisure goods.
An industrial design must appeal to the eye. This means that an industrial design is primarily of an aesthetic nature, and does not protect any technical features of the article to which it is applied.
Milani law firm provides a complete assistance to any inventors of a drawing or designers, or those who are entitled to rights thereto. We represent them before the courts or any other government bodies in case of violation of their exclusive rights. We advise and assist them with the drafting or reviewing of any agreement related to the transfer of their rights.
We have substantial experience and expertise in the followings:
Industrial design registration
Industrial design annuities
Industrial design assignment
Industrial design changes
Industrial design licensing
Industrial design search
Industrial design litigation
A patent is an exclusive right granted for any inventions, which they are new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application whether they are related to new industrial products, modern industrial techniques and devices, or common industrial methods.
In general, it is a new way of doing something or offers a new technical solution to a problem. Milani law firm provides a wide range of patent services, this will include, but is not limited to, searching, filing application, prosecuting applications, post-registration actions, advising on the government fees, drafting and reviewing a licensing agreement or any other transferring agreement, legal opinion, representing the clients before courts.
We have substantial experience and expertise in the followings:
Patent registration
Patent annuities
Patent assignment
Patent changes
Patent licensing
Patent search
Patent opposition
Patent litigation
A trademark is any sign capable of being represented by a specific name or a form which is capable of distinguishing goods or services of one legal or natural person from those of other legal or natural person. A trademark may consist of all kinds of names such as personal names, pseudonyms, words, expressions, letters, descriptions, numerals and emblems; Forms such as drawings including protruding designs, stamps, figures, the shape of goods or their packaging, colors, combinations of colors, and three-dimensional signs.
With the globalization of the world and with the development of international trade, trademark becomes the most precious and important assets of an enterprise. The adequate protection of an important trademark may determinate and affect the success of a product in a market place.
Our professional team is qualified and dedicated to grant the clients with the best legal consultation and they are always up-to-date with any development or any new jurisprudence in the trademark field.
Milani law firm provides first class quality of services and legal expertise as we always work hard to improve our work, reach our goals, and achieve our commitments to the clients.
We have substantial experience and expertise in the followings:
Trademark registration
Trademark renewal
Trademark assignment
Trademark changes
Trademark licensing
Trademark search
Trademark opposition
Trademark litigation
The term unfair competition applies to any actions taken by economic entities and aimed at benefitting their own business that are against the law or business customs, reasonableness and fairness, and have caused or may cause damages to other economic entities or have caused or may cause damage to these competitors’ business reputation.
Normally, infringement of IP rights happens with forging protected rights. We have litigated intellectual property rights and unfair competition cases in a wide variety of industries and have comprehensive experience in this field.
