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FORAL Patent Law Offices is known as a professional and reliable partner for the acquisition, enforcement and litigation of intellectual property rights.

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