Intellectual Property Law

Law firm Hradec Králové has been specialising in intellectual property law (copyright law and industrial property law) for a long time and its defenders have been remarkably successful in a number of lawsuits against copyright collective societies across Czech Republic. These include OSA (copyright collective society for musical works), INTEGRAM (independent company of actors, dancers, musicians, singers and music and film producers) OAZA (association for the protection of sound engineers and authors), cinematographic distributors (Bontonfilm, Hollywood, etc.) and Czech Anti‑Piracy Union. See the Czech Television report on copyright royalties and judicial finding of Czech Constitutional Court in the lawsuit between VELO CZ and OAZA.

Law firm Hradec Králové also actively participates in the creation of independent copyright societies. For the authors, performers and copyright users, these societies are supposed to be an alternative to OSA, INTEGRAM and OAZA copyright collective societies. Thanks to the longstanding experience and expertise, our lawyers help the individual user associations and users of copyright works negotiate the royalty rate and discount enforcement with collective societies.

The main areas of our legal counselling for the intellectual property law (i.e. copyright law and industrial property law) are listed in the overview below.

Legal services in terms of copyright law

We can guarantee:

legal analysis and counselling related to the law on copyright and applicable amendments
preparation of licensing agreements, agreements on the production of copyright works and publishing contracts
representation of plaintiffs in court and other proceedings on enforcing the copyright (and related) claims
representation of defendants in court proceedings on declaring the unjust enrichment recovered by OSA, INTERGRAM and OAZA copyright collective societies, cinematographic and music distributors, as well as Czech Anti‑Piracy Union or IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry)

Legal services in terms of industrial property law

We can guarantee:

legal counselling for protection, management and registration of trademarks, utility models, industrial designs and designations of origin or geographical indications
representation in administrative proceedings before the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic, EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) and WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and research in their registers of industrial property rights
representation in court proceedings on the industrial property infringements