Intellectual Property

Creativity and business have always gone hand in hand. Creativity, innovation, and the constant search for new and improved products and services ensure that you have a huge advantage over your competitors.

However, this also brings to the fore the question of how to protect your intellectual property from infringement and misuse? Different countries and alliances have similar mechanisms in place for the registration of intellectual property, trademarks, logos and so on.

Our team of specialists can help you protect your most valuable assets by advising and representing you at every stage of the procedure for registration and protection of trademarks, industrial designs, patents and utility models. What's more, in the dynamic world of vast technology, it is KGK team that can competently assist you with domain name issues and conflicts between trademarks and domains, as well as conflicts between trademarks and company names. We have a number of successful projects in the fields of software development, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and technology.

We can make sure your ideas are protected in the best way. From source code copyrights, to music, to audio-visual works, we have the expertise to provide the support you need.

What is intellectual property?

Intellectual Property as a legal and economic term is a relatively new institution defining the exclusive rights of the creations of the human mind and human intellect, but authorship has been protected by law in one form or another since antiquity. However, the rapid growth of the free economy, global competition and the marketplace since the middle of the last century have required more and more creations to come under the regulation of IPR.

The concept of intellectual property is broad and includes all kinds of objects. Over the years, a distinct part of intellectual property has stood alone asIndustrial PropertyIt mainly refers to

Patents for inventions;
utility models;
trademarks;
geographical indications (protected geographical indications, protected designations of origin and traditional recipes);
industrial design;
new plant varieties and animal breeds;
domain names and business names;
topology of integrated circuits and other intellectual property applicable in industry.

In addition to industrial property, the protection of works of science, art and literature also fall under the objects protected as intellectual property. Know-how and production processes, as well as protection against unfair competition, are also perceived as part of the matter dealing with intellectual property protection.

Nowadays, the general concept of intellectual property is gradually beginning to be divided into 4 categories, serving as a starting point as to the type of protection:

patent - granted to protect inventions that should meet specific criteria
trademark - a symbol, name, phrase, sound that associates with a particular product/service. Trademarks serve to distinguish the products/services provided by one trader from those of other market participants;
copyright - refers to literary and artistic works, novels, audio-visual works, computer programs. They arise for the author automatically, immediately with the creation of the work;
trade secrets - undisclosed information, also known as 'know how' or 'industrial secrets'. In this case, it is protection over information which is valuable for one reason or another to an undertaking which makes a special effort to keep it secret.

The KGK Law Firm team can assist you with all intellectual property matters, providing you with the best solution.

Why trust KGK when you need intellectual property protection?

The protection of intellectual property is characterised by its so-called territorial scope. This generally means that if any intellectual property object can be protected in a specific territory. For example, if you have registered a trademark for the territory of Bulgaria, it will be protected only in that territory. If you want to obtain protection in other territories, you will have to register the trademark for those territories as well. In today's rapidly evolving world, special proceedings are provided for certain types of intellectual property that allow protection to be obtained simultaneously in the territory of several countries. For example, a trade mark can be registered simultaneously for the whole of the EU.

The current legislation provides for exceptions that allow for the free use of protected sites by third parties. This means that in some specific cases you can use an intellectual property object without obtaining the rights holder's permission and without paying any remuneration. Contact us if:

You are unsure whether you will owe royalties for the use of a work or have a claim that someone owes you royalties;
You wish to register any industrial or artistic property;
You have inherited intellectual property rights;
You want to renew/amend a patent, design or trademark.

Our IP consultants will become a trusted partner to your business, providing detailed advice and representation before the institutions, the Patent Office and the courts. We will prepare all the necessary documents, applications and oppositions, guaranteeing you legal protection in a dynamic market environment where innovation and creativity are the direct but steep path to success.