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Cases · Technology & intellectual property · Trademarks, brands & counterfeiting
Stop a copycat brand in another market
WONE Global has an IP professional in that market establish your rights, file opposition, cancellation or customs action in the right order, and negotiate or litigate a buy-back if that is faster.
Countries in the typical case France · United Arab Emirates
The situation
A competitor or distributor is selling under your brand, or something confusingly close, in a market where you have no registration.
What is at stake
Every month the copycat trades, they take sales and reputation, and if they own the registration they can block your own goods.
Who faces this
A scenario
Cosmetics brandMid-sized company · from France · in United Arab Emirates
Its former Gulf distributor has registered the brand in its own name and is using the registration to block the brand's own imports. Sales in the region have stopped.
Where it ends The brand back in the company's name and imports moving again.
A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.
Also asked as “Our former distributor registered our trade mark abroad”“A competitor copied our brand overseas”“A competitor is using a confusingly similar brand name”“Our trademark has been filed by someone else in another country”“An overseas distributor is misusing our trademark”“A competitor has copied distinctive product packaging”“A franchisee refuses to stop using our brand after termination”
The solution
WONE Global has an IP professional in that market establish your rights, file opposition, cancellation or customs action in the right order, and negotiate or litigate a buy-back if that is faster.
Usually led by Trade marks, patents and brands, with Disputes and arbitration, Contracts and commercial law and Customs, trade and export controls.
Step by step, in the scenario
Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.
Decisions
Outcomes
This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.
Services
One area of expertise usually leads; the others move with it. WONE Global keeps them connected across every country involved.
Who handles it
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.
Other markets: WONE Global covers 100 countries. Name yours in the requirement →
Kraków · PolandWONE Global Capability Partner · Poland
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 …
Kampala · UgandaWONE Global Capability Partner · Uganda
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…
Palermo · ArgentinaWONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina
She is a lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. She took his first steps in the nation's judiciary, in the National Labor Court, where he developed a rapid caree…
Nairobi · KenyaWONE Global Capability Partner · Kenya
Specialties: Commercial Transactions & Litigation
Kraków · PolandWONE Global Capability Partner · Poland
Complete profile
Attorney at Law. Co-founder of the law firm. Provides litigation services to banks and advises corporate clients in international trade. Supervises the work of the Litigation Department and the International Desk. Chair…
Jeddah · Saudi ArabiaWONE Global Capability Partner · Saudi Arabia
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Markets in the typical case
Corridors
Services and subject
Worked examples
Researched corridor journeys, and representative scenarios on the same subject. None is a specific client’s matter.
Trademarks, brands & counterfeiting
WONE Global Intelligence
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UNIONE™ · Before You Arbitrate™
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For this moment
UNIONE™ is the UNBOUNDED™ Global Ecosystem's institution for cross-border dispute prevention, resolution, arbitration and enforcement. Like WONE Global, it is part of the ecosystem, and the two work as one. Links open theunione.org. Visit UNIONE™ · Disputes with WONE Global and UNIONE™
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