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Intellectual Property in Lebanon
Protecting your innovations from imitation and unfair competition.
Scope
A few examples of what we can handle
- Intellectual property protection in Lebanon, including strategy, registrations, ownership, portfolio management, and commercialization
- Trademark registration in Lebanon, including searches, applications, renewals, assignments, oppositions, and cancellation proceedings
- Copyright protection, including ownership, licensing, unauthorized use, and enforcement involving creative works, content, and software
- Patent and industrial-design protection, including filing, registration, ownership, licensing, and infringement matters
- Trade secrets and confidential information, including NDAs, internal safeguards, access controls, and employee or contractor obligations
- Intellectual property licensing and assignments, including technology, franchising, merchandising, content, and brand-licensing agreements
- Franchising and brand expansion agreements, including trademark licensing, know-how, operating standards, territory, fees, quality control, renewal, and termination
- Trademark cancellation actions and registry proceedings in Lebanon, including responses to conflicting applications, challenges to registrations, ownership claims, renewals, assignments, and other recordals
- Unfair competition, imitation, and counterfeiting, including misuse of trademarks, packaging, product appearance, advertising, and business know-how
- Intellectual property disputes and enforcement in Lebanon, including infringement claims, cease-and-desist measures, evidence preservation, settlement, and litigation
- Intellectual property investigations, audits, and due diligence, including ownership and chain-of-title reviews, registration checks, suspected infringement, counterfeit goods, licensing risks, evidence gathering, and transaction review
How We Work
Clear ownership. Effective protection. Decisive enforcement.
Intellectual property protection starts with identifying what the client owns, how it was created, and where its commercial value lies. We clarify ownership, select the right combination of registration, contract, confidentiality, and internal safeguards, and ensure that protection fits the way the asset is used, licensed, expanded, or transferred. When infringement, imitation, or misuse occurs, we act promptly to preserve evidence, stop the harm, and enforce the client’s rights through the most effective available route.