Areas of Practice

Intellectual Property

Legal services on protection of the rights to results of intellectual activities are an important part of practice of the company “Yakovlev & Partners”.

Legal services in this field are rendered by our best specialists, every one of which has practical experience of counsel in the field of intellectual property. Preparation of studies under the contractual work is one of the channels of such assistance.

As seen from the practice, the assistance rendered by our company is in demand with the owners of various forms of intellectual property not only in settlement of disputes, but, first of all, for achievement of a higher economic results under conclusion of agreement with counteragents. This is achieved by a careful formulation of the terms and conditions of the contract, which prevents disputes and decreases the risks.

Our services:

• rendering counsel on the issues connected with the protection of copyrights and neighboring rights, also in the Internet;
• legal support of the actors’ activities during realization of musical projects, including representing actors’ interests during negotiation of producer’s agreements and other contracts with the producer companies, TV channels;
• holding negotiations with the producer companies, TV channels on the terms and conditions of agreements concluded by the actors regarding the observation of the performers’ rights, payment of remuneration to the actors;
• counsel on the issues of creation, production and distribution of audio and video works of art, including transfer of copyrights and neighboring rights by the performers of audio and video works of art in the show business and film industry;
• preparation, analysis and registration of agreements on transfer of the exclusive rights to the patented invention (assignment of a patent), on cession of the application to the trademark, license agreements, commercial concession agreements (franchising);
• rendering legal assistance in the procedure of filing Eurasian application for patent for invention;
• counsel on the issues connected with protection of the patent authors’, patent holders’ rights;
• representing interests of right owners in the courts;
• handling affairs in the state and other bodies on the issues of registration of trade marks, service marks, copyrights, license and franchising agreements, obtaining patents, renewal of the term of patent.