Intellectual Property
Europe Guide 2024 : Latvia
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About
Provided by COBALT
One of the largest and most active IP practice in Latvia.
Renowned for our complex and high-profile matters, often involving cross-border elements. The team specializes in contentious and non-contentious IP, regulatory (including life sciences, regulated industries, consumer protection, media / advertising), and IT matters. In IP, they prosecute trademarks and designs, and enforce all types of IP, including patents.
The IP team has expertise across various industry sectors. They have recently received instructions from clients in the pharmaceutical, food, banking, fashion, transportation, publishing, furniture, cosmetics, retail, IT, telecoms, energy, toy, gaming, and media industries.
The team is particularly well-known for its deep expertise and long-standing extensive experience in the pharmacy and life sciences industry. Daily, we work with most of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.
The team includes three professionally licensed trademark and/or design attorneys, all of whom are additionally qualified as sworn attorneys, and an attorney admitted to practice in New York, USA, who can represent clients before the USPTO.
In late 2022, our firm re-established its US trademark practice, and we now have a US-qualified attorney who is also a European Trademark Attorney providing trademark prosecution and direct filings in the USPTO. This cross-border service has been well received by our clients and peers in the region and globally.
Chambers Review
COBALT has a market-leading team active in a broad array of areas, including trade mark and copyright infringement, anti-counterfeiting and patent disputes, including enforcement. The law firm also offers notable strength in non-contentious matters, including the assignment of IP rights in M&A transactions. It represents a core client base of global pharmaceutical companies as well as technology and international brands in other industries.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"COBALT provides great assistance, quick responses and a high level of service."
"COBALT provides great assistance, quick responses and a high level of service."
Notable Practitioners
Līga Fjodorova heads COBALT's patents, trade marks and design practice, often representing clients in disputes and protection matters. She offers experience acting for clients from the telecoms, technology, retail and pharmaceutical industries.
"Līga Fjodorova provides an excellent cooperation."
