Czech Republic

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

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

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America

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.