Intellectual Property

• provides trademark services to
• One, Coca Cola, Deutsche Telecom, AVA, ROLCO, ESSEX, AMITA, VALENTIN, OASIA, and Sidenor,
• represents the first Albanian engine patent,
• represents a wide range of trademarks including those of
• telecommunications,
  
• soft drinks,
  
• tobacco.
• enhanced the Intellectual Property Law Department to provide expanded trademark and industrial design services - prosecution and registration.

• terminated infringements of clients’ intellectual property by closing down illegal production facilities, confiscating or destroying fake products,
• represent a multinational client in the first trademark infringement litigation against a parallel import in Bulgaria,
• participated in the campaign against CD piracy in Bulgaria – acknowledged by the UN Trade Organization as the major success in Central and Eastern Europe fight against IP infringements,
• assisted with the protection of intellectual property for many major companies including
• Adidas Salomon AG,
• Allied Domecq,
• amazon.com,
• American Standard Inc.,
• Cadbury Schweppes plc,
• SmithKline Beecham plc,
• Coca-Cola,
• Diageo/UDV,
• Interbrew S.A.
• Kraft Jacobs Suchard,
• Philip Morris,
• Procter & Gamble.

• DTB provided trademark prosecution services to a number of companies worldwide. The list includes the biggest Austrian oil company OMV, a publishing and media company, a tobacco business company, a high end fashion company, one of the largest tyre manufacturer, one of the leading global hospitality company, etc.
• DTB represented one of the leading regional manufacturers of construction material in IP related litigation cases;
• Trademark enforcement services to a large worldwide publishing and entertainment company;
• Trademark enforcement for one of the world’s largest electronic product manufacturer.

• represent clients in the procedures for creation and protection of intellectual property rights at the IPPO - Skopje, the Monopoly Authority, and other governmental authorities and institutions,
  
• represent foreign multinational companies in the court procedures for protection of intellectual property rights from infringement by domestic entities.

local counsel to

• Microsoft Corporation in the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of the Romanian software producer GeCAD Software,
  
• Philip Morris Holland B.V. in the acquisition of the Romanian subsidiary of the Greek-based company Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing SA,
  
• Trinity Inc. in restructuring its intellectual property portfolio,
  
• Mobifon, the leading mobile communications operator in restructuring its trademark portfolio.
  

assisted

• Philip Morris International,
  
• Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding AG,
  
• The Hearst Corporation

In patent and trademark litigation assisted

• Lek Pharmaceutical & Chemical Company dd,
• Philip Morris International,
• Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding AG.