World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) describes Intellectual Property describes as follow:
“Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind: inventions; literary and artistic works; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. Intellectual property is divided into two categories:
Industrial Property includes patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications.
Copyright covers literary works (such as novels, poems and plays), films, music, artistic works (e.g., drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures) and architectural design. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and broadcasters in their radio and television programs.
Some of the services provided by S.A. Legal in this area include:
- Tracking brand applications and correspondence with TPE,
- License proceedings,
- Consulting on intellectual property rights during mergers and acquisitions of the companies,
- Consulting on international trademark, patent and industrial design,
- Prevention of abuse of trademark,
- Conducting registration, protection, transfer procedures of trademarks, patents, industrial designs and utility models as well as conducting local and international research on them,
- Pre- investigation on trademark, patent and industrial design,
- Following of disputes arising from breaching of a trademark, patent industrial designs or utility models,
- Prevention and compensation of brand infringement.