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Intellectual Property Law (IP, contracts, licenses, copyright, advertising)

License agreements, Copyright. Economic copyright. Personal copyright. Reputation parasitism. Unauthorized comparative advertising. Domain disputes. Contracts for work to create software solutions. SW service contracts. Contracts with marketing agencies. Contracts with performing artists. Contract for the production of short videos. Start-up and intellectual property rights to the target asset. Scale-up and intellectual property rights to the target asset.

An overview of significant terms related to legal protection in the field of intellectual property law (IP), contracts, licenses, advertising, authorship, and infringement of rights arising from them. As lawyers specializing in M&A consulting, we have in transactions and investments in start-ups and scale-ups identified a clear must of every given transaction – the answer to the question, whose intellectual property rights are to the target asset (project, technology, software, app, but also the design of a building's façade, architectural work, and others), which is the reason for acquisition or investment for the buyer or investor.

Comprehensive agenda intellectual property law, which we cover at SKYLEX, includes a wide range of areas, and we have defined them into five main categories that we help you protect:

  • IP law (intellectual property law) - advertising, media, economic copyright and licenses, personal copyrights, legal due diligence to determine the IP rights status and their actual owners for investors' entry and company sale-purchase purposes
  • Modern contracts: contracts with marketing agencies, contracts with influencers (ambassadors), e-commerce law (GTC, GDPR), contracts for website creation, SEO optimization contracts, contracts for social media management, contracts for creating short videos (audiovisual works) for social media, advertising, and marketing
  • IT law and TMT - contracts for work and development contracts, SW maintenance contracts
  • Registration of intellectual property rights - trademark registration (national, EUIPO, WIPO, extending already registered marks by classes, selected goods and services or territories), trademark searches and monitoring, design law, patent
  • Domains and intellectual property disputes, disputes over trademark infringement, reputation parasitism, and comparative advertising

How can we help you?

In consulting on intellectual property law, in the section  IP, contracts, licenses, copyright, advertising  we assist our clients in defining what constitutes intellectual property and who owns it (company, individual). We set contracts with subcontractors and creators of works for clients, help define the scope of licenses, and secure the related creation of license agreements. 
 
As part of legal due diligence, we help identify the scope of IP rights that a potential buyer will acquire when purchasing a company and identify risks whether the company the buyer is interested in acquiring owns the IP rights to the target product/asset. We similarly handle this agenda for investors – whether the target company holds IP rights to the "reason" for which the investor invests in the company, since many acquisitions and transactions are conducted with the intention not necessarily to acquire the company  but the technology, manufacturing know-how, software, application, i.e. the elements of intellectual property that the company owns and that generate cash flow.
 
Since we live in an age of rapid growth and influence of social media and the content that appears on them, we advise our clients on creating modern contracts such as contracts with influencers, contracts with marketing agencies, contractual documentation for SEO optimization and social media management, as well as contracts for the creation and production of short videos for social media, including non-disclosure agreements, non-compete agreements, and non-solicitation agreements, which are very important for business today and closely related to IP law.

In intellectual property law, we focus especially on:

  • legal advice in connection with internal legal due diligence (Vendor’s due diligence) to identify the scope of intellectual property rights for company owners
  • legal advice in connection with legal due diligence to identify the scope of intellectual property rights for investors entering companies and potential buyers
  • preparation of license agreements and licensing terms (e.g. for architectural competitions, for use of audiovisual works, for product use in social media content creation)
  • creation of contracts for work (architects, web design creators, advertisements, marketing campaigns, software contracts)
  • creation of contracts with marketing agencies, influencers (ambassadors), for web creation - text and design, contracts for SEO optimization, contracts for social media management, contracts for creating short videos (audiovisual works) for social media, advertising, and marketing
  • resolving violations of copyright relationships, reputation parasitism, unfair and damaging comparative advertising, infringement of registered rights (trademarks, etc.)
  • legal assistance with domain name front running
  • analyses of personal and economic rights to works, designs, and processing for clients mainly in the architectural, design, and creative industries

What our clients said

Thank you very much for the Due Diligence and license agreement; I was pleasantly surprised by your approach and patience with me as this was new to me. I have been using the agreement for a long time and must admit you did not leave out a single detail I have encountered during that time!

Thank you, Zuzi, we are glad to have you; you are an important part of the development of every brand. The last touch for peace of mind. Brands definitely should not avoid this step, it is essential."

CEO Individualist - Dimunova sweatshirt

I highly recommend Zuzana based on our cooperation. She excels in expertise, high professionalism, and excellent communication. If you are looking for a reliable and competent lawyer, Zuzana is definitely the right choice.

Selected reference transactions

  • comprehensive legal advice in preparing documents for an architectural competition, including licensing terms for a JV company owning a historic building in the center of Bratislava
  • legal advice for a company operating in the e-commerce boosting, marketing, and social media management segment - creating contracts with service subcontractors
  • legal advice for a company operating in the e-commerce boosting, marketing, and social media management segment – drafting contracts with clients for SEO optimization, marketing services, and network management, including modification of non-disclosure agreements
  • legal advice for a company producing short videos for social networks
  • legal advice for a company in marketing and strategic marketing communication for creating contracts with influencers, setting licensing terms for products and content creation, and non-disclosure agreements
  • multiple legal due diligence focused on intellectual property elements and copyrights
  • contracts with subcontractors and freelancers, including modification of economic copyright issues
  • contracts for work with architects and resolving personal and economic copyrights
  • contracts for work for clients of a well-known Slovak interior designer operating in Slovakia, Dubai, and Spain, and resolving personal and economic copyrights
  • trademark registrations (see section trademark.boutique)
  • assessment of economic and personal rights from design business identifiers (logos) for a prominent Slovak author and corporate identity creator (see trademark.boutique section)
  • contracts for development of software solutions, contracts for work, and service contracts for SW (see section IT Law and TMT Law)
M&A Advisory (Mergers and Acquisitions)

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  • how to create licensing terms for contracts for work
  • how to set up a license for the use of software, architectural works
  • how to properly set up a contract with an influencer and what to include in a non-disclosure agreement
  • how to handle contracts with marketing agencies for SEO optimization and social media management
  • what to do if someone is exploiting your mark
  • what to do if someone places your logo or brand on subpages of their website
  • how to handle contracts with freelancers so that your IP truly belongs to you
  • how to register a trademark
  • how to draft a contract for software development and software maintenance
  • how to verify that the target company you want to buy or invest in truly owns the rights to the target assets
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