OUR PRACTICE

SERVICES

We aim to understand the commercial objectives of our clients and tailor our services to provide practical, timely, cost-effective and responsive solutions to their business. Above all, we seek to establish long term relationships with our clients, built on commitment and mutual trust and respect.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

· TRADEMARKS
· PATENTS
· LICENSE AGREEMENTS
· DATABASE SEARCH AND WATCHING SERVICE

HELATH REGISTERS
CONSUMMER RIGHTS
CASH COLLECTION
LITIGATION
OTHER LEGAL SERVICES
OUR SERVICES IN THE WORLD


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

is one of our main field of practice; we represent our clients in matters such Trademarks, Commercial names and copyrights, Patents, Utility Models, designs. We have great expertise in prosecution, as well as in licensing and litigation. Litigation is sometimes the only way to resolve a dispute and should be handled with the utmost care and consideration, We have an extensive number of attorneys and staff with solid expertise in court proceedings. In particular, our ability to put together a team of lawyers with various areas of expertise has allowed us to develop a good track record in litigation.
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TRADEMARK

·Trademark consultations and searches
·Prosecution of trademark registrations in Colombia and abroad.
·Renewals, assignments, or bibliographic change of registered trademarks
·Trademark licenses
·Propositions to trademark applications.
·Reviews of refusals.
·Petitions for the cancellation of improperly registered trademarks
·Trademark watch.

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PATENT

·Prosecution of patent applications for invention, utility model and design
·Registration of patent
·Patent search and consultation
·Patent reexamination and invalidation request
·Patent annuity payment
·Patent watch

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FRANCHISES AND LICENSE AGREEMENTS

IURIS MARK can assist you in drafting franchising contracts and license agreements concerning intellectual property

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DATABASE SEARCHES

IURIS MARK has access to a number of international databases and to other sources with information on trademarks and patents. By means of these we can perform searches of existing trademarks and patents in order to ascertain whether your development is new, whether the characteristic sign of your business is new, or whether there is existing registered rights that you are in danger of infringing.

Our services for trademarks do not end with trademark searches and applications. We are currently putting emphasis on various consulting services such as employee education for trademark selection, in-house trademark management systems, and application of rights. We have tie-ups with offices in most countries and can readily make applications and registrations outside of Colombia.

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HEALTH REGISTERS

It is necessary for any national or foreign corporation engaged in production, bottling, distribution, import, export or commercialization of products for human, agricultural or animal use to get the Health registers In Colombia.

IURIS MARK works to obtain government registrations for the sale of those products, as pharmaceuticals and medicaments, food, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks. We also work on obtaining permits from the Agricultural Agency for agricultural materials such fungicides, insecticides, fertilizers and other material in crop farming and animal husbandry.

· Prosecution of Sanitary Registers, from application to obtain the due register.
· Renewal
· Amendment
· Answering any consultations formulated in this field.
· Provide the technical information and advice required to obtain the registrations.
· Advice in good manufacturing practices

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CONSUMER RIGHTS PROTECTION, UNFAIR COMPETITION AND ANTI-TRUST LAW

· We represent the clients in legal proceedings before the competent authorities.
· Advising and presentation requests to obtain the approval from the Official Agency in the cases of consolidation, integration or merger and businesses control
· Presentation of accusations and defense in infractions against the law about commercial practices and unfair conducts of competence
· Resources of reinstatement or direct requests of revocation against acts from the government agencies
· Presentation of accusations or defense in infractions against the dispositions on protection to the consumer rights
· Advice for the adequate management of the business in the attention to the consumer.
· Advising in the calculation, and presentation of requests, of liquidation of damages

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CASH MANAGEMENT AND CASH COLLECTION

· General Administration of bills, recovery and collection for commercial, banking, financial and service companies.
· Preventive Management of collections that permit to anticipate the contractual defaults: To recall the expiration and to establish a commitment of payments
· Pre-judicial management to recover delay debts Out-of-courts
· Judicial Management against delinquent debtors; it includes legal proceedings in the competent courts under the supervision of our team of lawyers and staff
· Applicable Management to bad debts: debts that did not qualify for the judicial process or whose actions documents or legal time limit of collection are already prescribed.
· Collection of the payments
· Preparation and presentation of reports

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LITIGATION SERVICES

o IP administrative litigations
o IP infringement litigations
o Litigations concerning the ownership of the IP rights
o Dispute litigations concerning the technology contracts
Litigations concerning the dispute of economic contracts

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OTHER LEGAL SERVICES

· administrative proceedings concerning trademark infringement
· Anti-counterfeiting actions
· Evidence-obtaining and investigation.
· Consultation of the IP laws;
· Copyright (including the computer software) registration
· Registration of the integrated circuit topography protection
· Domain name registration
· Contracts (including the technology contract) drafting and
· Reviewing
· Legal counseling services
· Patent and trademark searches
· IP infringement analysis

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OUR SERVICES IN THE WORLD

IURIS MARK LTDA. has his headquarters in BOGOTA, Colombia and a new branch in CARACAS, Venezuela; set up and maintained good business cooperation relationship with several enterprises and IP firms in tens of countries and districts. It has dealt with numerous trademark registrations on behalf of its Colombian and foreign clients, prosecuted many of IP related disputes and lawsuits. It devotes itself to protecting the interests and benefits of its clients both in Colombia and abroad.

Our strategic alliances whit lawyer firms abroad allow us to offer consultancy services and legal management in industrial copyright and industrial property throughout the world, and specially, in the Andean Community, The United States of America and the European Economic Community, which implies a number of benefits for our clients: a) our company shall be directly liable for all the issues entrusted to us; b) the client will not contract a different attorney in every city where he wants to perform legal procedures or invest money to get the respective contracts; c) the services shall be invoiced according to the local tariffs for regular of frequent clients, plus communication, money orders and remittance costs, etc.

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