Skip to main content
People & firms

The WONE Global Partners in each market.

Named senior professionals, each admitted as the one firm for a service in their country, and the firms they lead.

For professional firms

Lead your service in your market.

One Partner per service, per jurisdiction, admitted by review against published criteria.

Open Partnerships→
Insights

Sourced answers on doing business across borders.

Every statement is labelled: source-checked, professionally reviewed or not yet checked, with its source and date where checked.

Ask WONE Global

Ask your question.

Answers cite WONE Global's sourced statements and show how each one was checked. Research, not advice.

Ask WONE Global→

Cases · Technology & intellectual property · Trademarks, brands & counterfeiting

Register and protect a brand overseas

How do we register our trade mark in other countries?

WONE Global plans the filings by market and route (national or international), files them, answers examiners' objections and oppositions through local IP professionals, and sets up watch services.

Countries in the typical case India · United Arab Emirates · Saudi Arabia · United Kingdom · France

The situation

What is happening

What is at stake

Without registration, someone else can take your brand in a market and use it to block your products there.

A scenario

Fashion brandMid-sized company · from India · in United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and 1 more

It plans to sell in the Gulf and Europe.

Where it ends A brand protected before launch.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “International trade mark registration”“Madrid system or national filing?”“Our company needs coordinated trademark registrations abroad”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global plans the filings by market and route (national or international), files them, answers examiners' objections and oppositions through local IP professionals, and sets up watch services.

Usually led by Trade marks, patents and brands, with Contracts and commercial law.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. Week 1WONE Global checks availability.
  2. Week 2Filings made.
  3. Months 2-8Objections handled.
  4. ThenWatch services.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Which classes, countries and filing routes
  2. 02Conflicts with existing marks
  3. 03How to police and enforce

Outcomes

What you receive

  • Clearance and filing strategy
  • Registrations filed
  • A watch and enforcement plan

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Services

The services involved

One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.

  1. Usually leadsTrade marks, patents and brands2 markets with a named lead→
  2. Often involvedContracts and commercial law12 markets with a named lead→

Who handles it

Trade marks, patents and brands, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Francein the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Indiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Saudi Arabiain the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  4. United Arab Emiratesin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  5. United Kingdomin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  6. Poland WONE Global Partner Anna Pawlikowska · Partner Brief this Partner →
  7. Uganda WONE Global Partner Tony Galandi Kiire · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →

Anna PawlikowskaKraków · Poland

WONE Global Capability Partner · Poland

Anna Pawlikowska

Partner · Zacharzewski & Partners Law Office · Kraków

Legal Adviser. Co-founder of the Firm. Has been advising parties on technology contracts for more than a dozen years. Specialises in intellectual property law and new technologies. Provides day-to-day legal services to …

Tony Galandi KiireKampala · Uganda

WONE Global Capability Partner · Uganda

Tony Galandi Kiire

Managing Partner · Diamond Advocates · Kampala

Tony Kiire is the Founding and Managing Partner of Diamond Advocates, where he leads the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Law practice. He is also the founder of Lawtech Associates and Consult, the comp…

Dr. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

WONE Global Intelligence

Ask about doing business across borders

Ask in your own words. Answers come from WONE Global's checked records, with every source shown, and end with the named Partner who can act. Go deeper on any point, or build a decision file.

Contact WONE Global

Discuss this case with WONE Global.

UNBOUNDED™ · Global Business Circuit™

Work through India ↔ United Arab Emirates with the leaders doing it.

Bring a live question about this corridor to a small online session of senior business leaders, run by UNBOUNDED™, the ecosystem WONE Global belongs to.

The Global Business Circuit™

One corridor, 60 minutes online, 12 senior business leaders. The leaders' own questions set the agenda; market and professional perspectives join only where the questions call for them.

WONE Global is one of the six institutions of the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem. Links open unboundedglobal.com. WONE Global in the ecosystem