ELGIP employs highly-skilled professionals who have a diverse background and experience in the Intellectual Property field and who adhere to high ethical and professional standards in order to provide reliable and professional services to clients, regionally and internationally, including:
Our patent prosecution group provides the complete range of domestic and worldwide patent services including patent registration, prosecution and counseling. The patent prosecution team consists of experienced legal practitioners who are licensed to practice before the Patent Office and we cover the following: Patents, Trademarks, Industrial designs and Copyright.
- Advising on selection and suitability of marks for registration.
- Searching prior registrations and applications.
- Advising on prospects for obtaining registration.
- Translation (English French Germany) of word marks.
- Registration and obtaining certified copies.
- Opposition proceedings.
- Advising on proper use of trade marks in packaging, labeling.
- Renewals.
- Patent searches.
- Preparation of Application Forms.
- Translation of specification into Arabic language by Authorized group of specialized translators in all the scientific fields.
- Filing Patent Applications.
- Responding to Official Actions.
- Obtaining the letters patent document.
- Licensing.
- Infringement and non-infringement opinions consultations.
- Annuity Fees.
- Preparation of formal drawings.
- Filing Design applications.
- Obtaining Certificate of Registration.
- Sending regular renewal reminders to our clients.
- Filing Literal works with the national Library of Egypt.
- Filing Artistic works with the National Library of Arts.
- Filing computer Software with the Ministry of Culture.
- The Egyptian Universities Network is the Local Registry for the Top-Level Domain Name (.eg) in Egypt.
ELGIP has successfully litigated numerous cases in intellectual property. Our enforcement and anti-piracy expertise extends to all areas of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs, trade names, trade dress, and unfair competition. We coordinate with private investigators and government enforcement agencies to obtain evidence on infringing use; conduct civil litigation against infringers; work with customs officials to improve border detection; and take administrative action against infringers; negotiate with infringers to resolve disputes using alternative dispute resolution techniques. In addition, our firm provides enforcement services through the civil and criminal courts.
Team of ELGIP is trademark experts in the region, and as such we are best placed to advice on the optimal course of action for dealing with conflicting trademarks. Our watch department uses human skill as to detect potentially conflicting trademark applications. We look at phonetic and visual similarities, transliteration and translations of the marks and any other nuances which we believe to be of interest to our clients. We give practical advice as to the strategy and chances of successfully opposing the published trademarks.
ELGIP has substantial experience in conducting field investigations in the markets. This work includes enquiries into suspect internal operations, investigations in support of due diligence projects, and fact-gathering for affirmative claims or litigation.