Czech Republic

Firm overview

The firm handles all IP matters including patents, utility designs, industrial designs, trademarks. We file numerous Czech and EU trademark applications every year. We represent local and foreign clients in prosecution and contentious matters at the IPO, EUIPO, WIPO as well as at the courts. The practitioners have extensive practise in IP matters. We also conduct patent and trademark searches, handle counterfeiting matters for leading companies in various business sectors, unfair competition matters and represent the clients in court proceedings in IP and unfair competition cases. We are known for excellent advice in contentious matters aas well as in representation before the courts.

Firm overview

Havlík Švorčík and Partners, Law and Patent Office (formerly Všetečka Zelený Švorčík and partners) is a leading IP and corporate law firm founded in 1990 in Prague. With over forty team members, the firm is one of the largest and best established IP practices in Czechia and Slovakia. Our clients are domestic and international companies from the fields of pharmaceutical and chemical industry, automotive, defense, entertainment and consumer packaged goods and retail as well as small and middle seized companies and start-ups and individual right holders.

We prosecute applications for patents, trademarks and designs before the Czech and Slovak Industrial Property Offices and EPO, EUIPO and WIPO. Our patent attorneys and translators cover all fields of technology from mechanical engineering, construction, IT to pharma and life sciences.

We provide strategic advice and administer several global patent, trademark and copyright licensing portfolios. The firm assists their clients in monitoring IP rights and enforcing them through court litigation in Czech or Slovak courts and other available procedures. We regularly litigate in patent and trademark infringement matters. Furthermore, the firm has an extensive anti-counterfeiting practice involving customs seizures and raids.

Our partners Otakar Svorcik, Martin Svorcik and Michal Havlik serve as panelists for the .eu and .cz domain name disputes at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre in Geneva and the Czech Arbitration Court in Prague. Michal Havlik is also a UDRP panelist for generic top-level domain names at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre.

Firm overview

Advokátní kancelář Vyskočil, Krošlák a spol. (AKVK) was founded in 1996 as an association of attorneys, since 2015 the existing association has been replaced by the business company Vyskočil, Krošlák a partneři s.r.o., advokátní kancelář. The founding lawyers of the firm graduated from Czech universities and subsequently studied at foreign universities (in Paris, Reims and London). Some of our lawyers practised law with premier international law firms at their offices in Paris and London and gained extensive experience of working for major international clients.

AKVK provide legal advice to Czech and foreign clients in almost all significant areas of law, in addition to Czech language also in English, French, and German.

Vyskočil, Krošlák a partneři s.r.o., advokátní kancelář, is a business company, with its seat at Voršilská 130/10, Praha 1. Attorneys František Vyskočil, Michaela Fuchsová, Jiří Spousta and Petr Ostrouchov are the partners of the firm. AKVK closely cooperates with the patent attorney Dana Lukajová.

Firm overview

KOREJZOVA LEGAL is a law firm with over 30 years of experience specializing in intellectual property (IP) law. Their services cover the protection of trademarks, designs, patents, utility models, and technologies, with a strong focus on industries like biochemistry, molecular biology, and pharmacology. They also provide consulting in IP strategies, licensing agreements, and technology transfers. The firm actively defends clients' rights through monitoring and anti-counterfeiting services. They offer expertise in competition law and support in IP-related disputes, ensuring comprehensive legal protection across multiple continents.