Your company has a great legal department and you believe the time has come to take trademark, patent,… management into your own hands. Your in-house counsel is only lacking expertise in the is field.

We at Jazz.legal have built up years of expertise in intellectual property procurement. We offer tailor-made training: everything from a short intro to IP and IP management, all the way to setting up an IP department from scratch is possible.

As a graphic designer, ad agency, copywriter or all-round creative, you create intellectual property all day. It is the basis for your enterprise and your income depends on it. Once you grow, intellectual property rights of employees become relevant.

A solid basic knowledge of copyright, trademarks and designs avoids future issues. Jazz.legal is happy to deliver such training. You can expect our training to be very concrete and relevant to your business.

Professional associations often receive questions about intellectual property: What should I watch out for when choosing a name for my new product? What should I do when someone posts my picture online without my permission? Is my former business partner allowed to continue using our company name?

This specialised matter might not be part of your legal team’s skill set. Jazz.legal is happy to offer your members a training session.

Some countries’ trademark offices will search their trademark registers for similar earlier trademarks when a new mark is applied for. This is the case in the US and China, for instance.

Most countries and regions don’t, however. Among others the Benelux and EU trademark offices lay the responsibility of detecting infringing applications on the trademark owner.

This is done in a trademark watch: following up on all new trademark applications in a certain region, to quickly respond to any infringement. Delayed action only results in problems: from higher costs to loss of rights.

Monitoring trademark registers is essential, but monitoring the internet is useful too. Websites and social media offer a quick and cheap way to offer counterfeit. A lack of active monitoring allows this type of counterfeit to fly under the radar.

Contact us to receive an internet and social media monitoring cost estimate.

You don’t have an internal legal service at your disposal, but you have to draw up a written contract from time to time. Perhaps you have been presented with a contract in which you don’t understand every word.

An incorrect term, a poorly defined object, … it can have serious consequences later on. Call in a professional to negotiate, draft and review your contracts.

Jazz.legal helps you with this, among others:

License contracts
All kinds of IT contracts
Contracts for the transfer of intellectual property
Distribution agreements
Artist and author contracts
General terms and conditions

We work at an hourly rate of € 165 (excl. VAT).

Before entering the market and before filing trademark applications, you should check the trademark registers to assure that there are no earlier similar trademarks. A trademark availability search looks for and analyses similar trademarks in the desired region, for the desired products and services.

Jazz.legal provides two options for trademark availability searches: