Law Firm Georgieva and Georgiev, owner of the trademark LEGAideas, namely specializes in the area of intellectual property, applying highly effective strategies and offering proven working decisions.

Co-partner and founder - Attorney-at-Law Ivanka Georgieva has a long professional experience in the protection of intellectual property rights.

Apart from the registration procedures of industrial property objects, Law Firm Georgiеva and Georgiev also has an established practice in the subsequent protection against the violation of the rights of these objects in legal form, as well as through out of court methods.

Fields in which we provide effective services:

- research, supervision and legal analysis of intellectual property objects
- registration, renewal and representation in the procedures of all types of applied for and registered intellectual property objects: trademarks; industrial design; inventions; utility models; geographical indications
- consultations and contract drafting based on the conditions for copyright creation, concerning rights of usage and deals with copy rights or another protective object of industrial property, concerning absolute or non-absolute rights of usage; complex license agreements
- consultations and contract drafting of producer, manager and publishing contracts; reproduction and distribution of sound- and video recordings; contracts concluded by artist-performers; contracts with radio and television organizations; contracts for data base usage and computer software.

Representation before:

1. Bulgarian Patent Office (BPO), concerning:
- registration of trademarks, industrial designs, utility models and patent granting
- submission of oppositions to the registration of industrial property objects
- submission of cancellation requests
- other legal proceedings and deals concerning industrial property objects

2. Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), concerning:
- registration of Community trademarks (CTM) and registration of Community design (CRD), valid in all 27 member-states of the EC
- other legal proceedings and deals concerning industrial property objects

3. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), concerning:
- filing for patents (PCT Patent), trademarks – based on the Madrid system for registration, and industrial design – based on the Hague system for registration
- other legal proceedings and deals concerning industrial property objects

4. European Patent Office (EPO), concerning:
- granting of a European Patent

5. Court procedures concerning all instances of procedural protection of infringed intellectual property rights.

6. Arbitration.

7. All types of administrative proceedings in regard to the further protection of infringed rights over intellectual property objects before: Commission for the Protection of Competition, Customs Agency, Ministry of Culture and Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria.

8. Representation in criminal prosecution procedures of violators of intellectual property rights.

9. Alternative methods for conflict resolution through mediation.