UNGRIA International

OUR SERVICES

Holding an international portfolio of IP rights requires coordinating many different jurisdictions, from filing to prosecution, litigation, licensing and enforcement. Moreover, the territorial limits of IP rights require a reliable local expert with international experience to understand the client needs.

UNGRIA International IP professionals are experienced and knowledgeable in obtaining the most accurate legal advice from our local experts and reliable foreign counsel, as well as coordinating the actions that may be needed in different jurisdictions.

• Licenses of IP rights: UNGRIA has decades of experience managing IP Licenses and also coordinating our services with companies specialized in the monetization of IP assets. UNGRIA can obtain the assistance of our local professionals and reliable local counsel and coordinate easily different jurisdictions when needed.
• Enforcement actions against third parties: In today’s globalized world, coordinating enforcement actions across multiple jurisdictions is one of the key and most challenging elements required to have a strong international IP portfolio. UNGRIA’s more than 130-years old experience places us in a unique position to manage these actions. Our professionals are familiarized, not only with the challenges that it implies, but also, and perhaps more importantly, with local counsel abroad; we have worked with them for many years and maintain regular contact, allowing us to react quickly and work as an harmonized team when required.
• Actions in customs to prevent an infringing product from entering into a market: UNGRIA is experienced managing actions to prevent or ensure enforcement of IP rights at the external border. Our international presence and close relationship with local counsel permit us to strengthen cooperation between them and custom officials, as well as with in-house departments or outside counsel.
• Nullity and cancellation actions against third party registrations: UNGRIA can assist you in obtaining reliable assistance from local counsel, who will provide you with a top-notch cost efficient service in the identification and evaluation of trademarks that can be annulled or cancelled, as well as representing you or your client before the competent authority.
• Drafting and negotiation of agreements: We have participated in the drafting and negotiation of all sorts of agreements related to intellectual property rights: license agreements, technology transfer agreements, assignment agreements, R&D cooperation agreements, confidentiality agreements, etc.
• Litigation proceedings: Patent and trademark litigation abroad is frequently an expensive, long and, most of the times, uncertain process. Besides, in many jurisdictions, the potential award of damages expected is not as large as in other jurisdictions, such as the US. Therefore, it is crucial to be efficient, avoid unnecessary expenses and carry on efficacious actions. UNGRIA can help you identifying the appropriate and most efficient counsel for the representation of you or your client’s interests abroad, which sometimes is a local attorney with experience in the local competent courts, as well as coordinate the work to be done between them and the in-house/outside counsel teams. We are experienced also in gathering the evidence necessary to obtain before filing a lawsuit in civil-law systems, as well as identifying and preparing the appropriate witnesses and experts.
• Regulatory issues: We can also provide assistance from our local experts and foreign counsel in relation to the development, manufacture and marketing of regulated products by government authorities, including marketing authorization issues to post-marketing compliance, lifecycle management and significant enforcement matters.

HOW IT WORKS

UNGRIA offers you an experienced team of people, heirs of a legacy of more than 130 years of specialization in IP at an international level, who may work as a single point of contact to manage IP legal advice and matters on a worldwide basis.

UNGRIA works with a reliable and cost-effective network of local counsel in more than 150 jurisdictions. Our patent and trademark departments, composed of highly specialized IP professionals, work with the in-house attorneys and engineers of our parent company in Spain, in front of the EPO, EUIPO, WIPO and Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) and our LATAM offices (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) in front of the Argentine National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).In all other offices in the world, we work, on a non-exclusive basis, with a long-established, carefully selected and monitored global network of IP firms.

WHY UNGRIA

Our IP professionals are experienced in managing IP matters internationally.

UNGRIA professionals can help you obtaining legal advice from reliable and specialized local IP counsel with whom UNGRIA has been collaborating for many years. Our solid relationship with them and the expertise of our IP professionals result in top-quality and cost-efficient service at a global basis.