Latvia
Country Awards 2019 2020
Best IPR Litigation Firm
FORAL Patent Law Offices is known as a professional and reliable partner for the acquisition, enforcement and litigation of intellectual property rights.
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stablished in 1991 the firm has grown to become one of the leading patent bureaus of Latvia representing clients before Latvian Patent Office, European Patent Office, EU Intellectual Property Office, WIPO, as well as customs authorities and national and international judicial institutions. For our company this year was remarkable with several important infringement and revocation proceedings in the field of patents, trademarks and designs. Some of these proceedings still continue in the next court instance.
I should not forget two design revocation cases successfully defended before the EUIPO Board of Appeal. These two cases have significant economic impact on the respective field of industry and shall play important defensive role in the pending infringement proceedings against our client. Also, I should mention the action enforcing trademark rights against a domain name in “.lv” zone. The main challenge in this case were some gaps in the national legislation dealing with issues of enforcement of trademarks in “.lv” domain names. The result of consideration of the case was not only a victory for the client, but also actualization of the question of improvement of national legislation.
Among these cases I wish to highlight a Alexandra Fortuna, Chair of the Board, Latvian and European Patent and Trademark Attorney trademark revocation action in which our company was successfully representing the defendant. In this We are proud of work we do for our clients and are thankful case the Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia (cassation for acknowledging our efforts. We believe that our team’s instance) has issued the judicature establishing ruling heavily knowledge, experience and responsibility is a key to our criticising the appeal instance ruling related to revocation of a clients’ success. trademark that was considered by the plaintiff to be generic. In its ruling the Supreme Court has set a number of criteria, which must be taken into account evaluating evidence supporting FORAL PATENT LAW OFFICES such revocation claims. P.O. Box 98, Riga LV-1050, Latvia Visitors: Kaleju 14, Suite 7, Riga LV-1050, Latvia Also, I should mention interesting court proceedings in respect Tel: +371 67223450, 67226550 of enforcing non-registered geographical indication, where we Fax: +371 67820107 were successfully representing the plaintiff. One of the main Email: foral@foral.eu challenges in this case was to prove that the particular indication www.foral.lv of a geographical nature is perceived by consumers and trade circles to be in connection with the specific origin of the goods.
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