Unitary Patent Court

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a common patent court of 17 countries of the European Union, which opened on 1 June 2023. The UPC hears cases regarding infringement and revocation proceedings of European patents (regular European patents unless they were opted out and unitary patents). A single court ruling is directly applicable in the…

European patent: A patent that can be obtained for all the EPC contracting states by filing a single application with the EPO in one of the three official languages (English, French or German).

From 1 June 2023, the first European patents with unitary effect registered by the EPO in the 17 EU member states participating in enhanced cooperation and ratifying the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC Agreement) by that date will enter into force. The new Unitary Patent is based on the European patent granted by the EPO…

IP Consulting provides full range of services in the field of intellectual property and one of our main fields of interest are patentable inventions and utility models protection. The services of IP Consulting in the field of patent protection include: Patent searches; Drafting patent applications (description, claims) in accordance with the legal requirements of the particular territory…

The team of IP Consulting® provides professional services in the field of protection of utility models in countries where such protection is provided (like Germany, Russian Federation, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Albania, Belarus, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Poland, Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, etc.). Legal protection for utility…

Plant varieties According to the Law on Protection of New Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds, protection in the field of new plant varieties is provided to the creation or discovery of new varieties of plants of every botanical family or sort, including branch, line, hybrid and padding, regardless of the method (artificial or natural) of…

IP Consulting® provides searches as follows: 1. Trademarks A profound and professional search is of great importance when choosing a trademark, as well as for the purposes of successful registration and putting the brand on the market. IP Consulting® provides the following servicesin the field of trademark search: А) trademark identify and similarity search: search of trademarks valid on particular territories of…

“Trademarks are signs capable of distinguishing goods or services of one person from the ones of other persons and can be graphically represented”. This is the trademark definition according to the Bulgarian Law on trademarks and geographical indications. In business circles trademarks are also known as “brand” or “brand name”. Of course, product or corporate…

European Union Trade Mark (EUTM) The regional system for the protection of European Union trade mark (EUTM), is the best way to protect your trade mark in the European union. Once registered as EUTM the trade mark gains protection on the territory of all member states of EU (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus,…