Intellectual Property

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Intellectual property protection is an issue that has to be addressed at practically all stages of doing business. This type of property plays an essential part in developing a company’s brand and making it attractive to clients. Intellectual property value increases as companies carry out mergers and acquisitions. With the expansion of business, companies are putting greater emphasis on structuring their intellectual property rights and transferring them to their partners.

With its team of highly experienced lawyers, PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal CIS B.V. provides top quality services, undertaking the legal aspects of trademarks, inventions and information technologies. Our services include due diligence, assistance with registration, structuring of ownership, transfer and licensing of exclusive rights to industrial property as well as insuring protection of copyrights and know-how and assistance with registering and protecting domain names.

How PwC can help

  • Support with structuring intellectual property rights

    • advising on and implementation of all types of intellectual property acquisition and transfer, including drafting, analysis and assistance with registering intellectual property rights transfer and licensing agreements and contracts with the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of the Russian Federation;
    • consulting on tax, commercial and legal aspects of intra-group intellectual property ownership restructuring and assistance with its implementation;
    • assistance with world-wide intellectual property ownership structuring, including establishment of intra-group intellectual property departments and/or intellectual property centres.

  • Due diligence of all types of intellectual property rights

    including analysis of their registration, acquisition and use compliance with the applicable legislation and providing recommendations on mitigating any detected risks

  • Advice on intellectual property rights licensing

    including drafting, review and assistance with registration of respective agreements and contracts

  • Consulting on registration procedure of industrial property rights and assistance with intellectual property registration in the territory of the Russian Federation and world-wide under international agreements

    including the Madrid Convention on the International Registration of Marks, the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention

  • Advice on intellectual property protection

    including determination of the legitimate intellectual property owner and assistance with pre-trial settlement of disputes and perfecting the title

  • Advice on franchising and assistance with agreement drafting and registration

  • Legal support on structuring the protection and licensing of technology and know-how, including agreement drafting

  • On-going advice on copyright protection and transfer

    • Advice on registering and obtaining rights to information technologies and databases

    • Legal support with domain names in .ru sector registration, acquisition and protection

Projects of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal CIS B.V.

  • An international fast-food production company:
    structuring of intellectual property rights ownership and licensing within the group as well as transfer of the company’s intellectual property to the target structure; consulting on trademark rights protection in the CIS.
  • International automobile manufacturer:
    licensing structure development for Russia-based entity of the company and consulting on legal protection of trademarks in Russia.
  • Russian clothing manufacturer:
    due diligence of trademarks, structuring trademark transfer to the company’s target structure, consulting on trademarks evaluation and protection worldwide.
  • International personal goods manufacturer:
    drafting software license agreement.
  • International film producer company:
    participation in drafting a master license agreement for the distribution in Russia.
  • International pharmaceutical, coating and chemical manufacturer:
    drafting an agreement on patenting technologies and know-how for the company's Russian partners.
  • Chain of “cash and carry” supermarkets:
    full scope consulting on transfer to the franchise operational model in Russia, including franchise agreement preparation.
 
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