Intellectual Property Rights and Telecommunications Law
Intellectual Property
Technology keeps changing and every day businesses are challenged to come up with new ideas to remain relevant. Unfortunately, while competition is healthy, it leads to acts of unfair competition and other acts infringing on the intellectual property rights of others.Our Team acts for our clients at all stages of the creation (reservation and registration) and enforcement (cease demands, litigation) of such rights.
The Team advises and assists clients on:
Undertaking due diligence on IPR transactions
Registration of IP rights including:
- patents,
- trademarks,
- copyrights,
- domain names,
- business processes
Drafting, reviewing and negotiation of IP acquisition and transfer agreements relating to IPR including:
- Software licence agreements
- Software assignment agreements
- Software purchase and transfer agreements
Undertaking litigation of matters relating to enforcement or infringement of Intellectual Property Rights.
Telecommunications
The Team has a robust telecommunication experience in the legal, contractual and regulatory matters. It has a vast experience in handling complex telecommunications issues involving in-depth understanding of technical know-how, telecommunications laws and regulatory rules.
- General advisory on telecommunications legal and regulatory issues
- Advice on market entry requirements and strategy
- Telecommunication Litigation
- Legal due diligence prior to acquisition of other entities
- Application for telecom licences
- Drafting, review and negotiation of various agreements relating to telecommunications, including:
- Equipment supply and services agreements
- Managed Services (outsourcing) Agreements
- Master Services Agreements
- Service Level Agreements
- Site sharing agreements
- Site acquisition
- Capacity leasing agreements
- Distributorship, special channels and franchising agreements
- Agency agreements
- Value Added Services (VAS) agreements
- Revenue sharing agreements.