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

HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Olomouc, Ostrava (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) and a new representative office in Frankfurt (Germany), has a team of 350 lawyers, tax advisors and patent attorneys, approximately 200 associates and a total of 500 employees, and is the largest independent law firm in Central Europe.

This has allowed us to build the largest intellectual property team with unparalleled specialization and experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 25 specialized IP lawyers offer an unbeatable degree of specialization in individual fields, with detailed knowledge of the market and the latest trends.

We advise the largest multinational corporations, established family-owned businesses and individuals; in a number of cases we have set the policy for the protection and monetization of intellectual property in start-ups, helping them to succeed and grow.

HAVEL & PARTNERS provides a complete service in the area of patent protection in all technical fields, validation of European patents, supplementary protection certificates, utility models and designs.
HAVEL & PARTNERS has also created a fully dedicated IP litigation team, specialized in all types of IP litigation before national and international courts and arbitration tribunals.

HAVEL & PARTNERS also has experts dedicated to IP transactions and technology transfer on a global scale, using various structures and vehicles, as well as designing licensing and other exploitation of internal or acquired IP. We are also very active in the venture capital and start-up world.

We are proud of our expertise and share our know-how on many occasions through our own training initiative, HAVEL & PARTNERS Academy, or by organizing workshops for students at universities, for start-ups or for the scientific community to increase their IP awareness.

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.

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.