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Practice 11

Intellectual Property

Protecting and leveraging your creations, registering your trademarks and defending against counterfeiting and unfair competition.

Protecting intangible assets is essential to sustaining the value of your business in Morocco. The office acts upstream on filings and the drafting of license agreements, and in defense when your rights are infringed.

1. Trademarks, patents & OMPIC

  • Prior-art searches to secure the choice of your names and logos.
  • Trademark registration and renewal procedures with the Moroccan Industrial and Commercial Property Office (OMPIC).
  • Filing of industrial designs, models and patents.
  • Management and follow-up of oppositions against the registration of similar marks.

2. Copyright & digital

  • Protection of literary and artistic works, software and databases.
  • Drafting of copyright assignment agreements, exploitation licenses and software development contracts.
  • Protection of online reputation and domain names (.ma naming rules), and GDPR / CNDP compliance for personal data.

3. Counterfeiting & unfair competition

Counterfeiting actions, counterfeit seizures to record the infringement, and unfair competition or free-riding actions to obtain compensation for the economic harm suffered.

Intellectual Property

Secure your innovations and your business identity

The office advises you on leveraging your intellectual property and preventing any unlawful imitation.