Our Practice Areas
Specializing in Intellectual Property Law, mabevo provides expert legal guidance to safeguard your unique creations. Our team of dedicated attorneys offers tailored solutions to protect your intellectual property rights through patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Secure your innovative ideas and creations by reaching out to us today.
Patents
Our MABEVO Law firm supports you in the patent protection of your inventions as follows:
- Inform you about the various means and strategies necessary to obtain protection for your inventions both in Burundi and abroad
- Keep your industrial property rights in force (monitoring and payment of annuities worldwide through our partners)
- Defend your rights in the event of infringement of your patents both in Burundi and abroad
- Prepare and participate in counterfeiting operations.
- Represent you and conduct procedures with the various patent offices and departments.
- Negociate and draft contracts in the field of patents (contracts of secrecy, confidentiality, assignment of patents, co-ownership, etc.)
- Register your contracts with patent offices and departments.
Brands
The services provided in the area of trademarks with the support of our specialist consultants and lawyers are as follows:
- Search for availability in all country
- Filing of trademark registration applications in Burundi, in the East African community and in elsewhere
- Follow-up of review procedures and response to notifications
- Entries in the registers of trademark offices and departments
- Pre-litigation and follow-up of litigation
- Management of trademark registrations and renewals
- Opposition proceedings in demand and in defense
- Monitoring (brands, company names, domain names, etc.)
- Drafting and negotiation of contracts (assignments, licenses, coexistence agreements, etc.)
Designs and models
The MABEVO Law firm assists you in protecting the appearance of an object through designs. our team offers you the following services in terms of designs:
- Search for availability everywhere
- Preparation of deposit techniques
- Filing of registration requests in Burundi, in the East African community and in all the countries
- Management of registrations and renewals
- Pre-litigation and litigation (letters of formal notice, summons, etc.)
- Consultations.
Copyright
The author is principally the owner of copyright from the creation of his work, provided that it is original. Thus, by the sole fact of its creation, the work is automatically protected.
However, the proof of the author’s capacity is sometimes difficult to prove. It is therefore preferable to proceed with the deposit of copyright.
MABEVO also advises you on the acquisition of your copyrights, the assignments and licences of these rights.
Software and ICT
Our firm supports you in the protection of your IT creations (ICT, software, databases, etc.) and the main services provided are as follows:
Protection of computer creations of any kind (software, applications, connected objects, etc.)
Contracts relating to computer creations (audit, drafting and negotiations)
Assistance and advice on the use of free software (audit of user licence agreements).
Domain names
Our Law firm supports you in the protection of your domain names (which are often characterized by .fr, .com, .net, etc.) through administrative management:
- Domain names monitoring
- Settlement of domain name disputes
- Amicable disputes resolution or arbitration procedure
- Buyout of domain names