Intellectual Property

Nowadays the intellectual property is one of the main assets of a business. Therefore, Niehaus Abogados has a specialized group that protects and defends the intellectual property rights of our clients.

Our firm offers the following services:

• Invention patents.
• Registration and maintenance of trademarks.
• Registration of designs.
• Publicity signs.
• Commercial Names.
• Domain Names.
• Industrial Secrets.
• Industrial designs.
• Author rights.
• Licenses, franchises and protection of commercial rights.

At the same time we are pro active and efficient in the registration of trademarks in foreign countries. This avoids the misuse of a trademark, or avoid that our clients’ competitors could obtain the right to use the trademark abroad.

Competition Law

Niehaus Abogados has advised national and foreign clients on the fulfillment of the Costa Rican Competition Law, which by the way, we were an important part in its elaboration. Our Law firm had the opportunity to deal with clients of different industrial and commercial sectors.

Some of the services offered are the following:

• Antitrust Law: We conduct audits and preventive programs that enable the avoidance of anticompetitive behavior without forgoing our clients’ commercial strategies.
• Unfair Competition: We advice our clients on the application and the reach of the Promotion of the Effective Consumer Competition Law.

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