Defending Exclusive Rights and Litigation

IPRs are rights to deny, and their significance grows as they are used in competition. According to our experience, companies that use their IPR weapon actively succeed in the market better than their competitors. By actively asserting its rights, a company may even increase the scope of its IPR rights as the competitors learn to be cautious of the rights granted to it.

We also provide our customers assistance in finding the best way of dealing with rights granted to competitors. If necessary, rights that disturb one’s business operations may be neutralized by agreements over their use or by the annulment or restriction of the exclusive rights owned by others.

Defending one’s rights is worth considering for instance in the following circumstances:

• a competitor has entered or is entering the market with a product/process/brand/design that is equivalent to the protected product or very similar to it,
• a competitor has applied for a right or a competitor has been granted a right that disturbs one’s own business operations,
• in a seminar or a lecture, a competitor describes such actions of theirs that might offend the company’s exclusive right,
• the company’s own customers report of activities in the market that offend a protected right or go against an agreement.