The Legal 500 > Europe, Middle East & Africa > Cyprus > Intellectual property

Elias Neocleous & Co LLC has a core focus on patent applications and trade mark registrations, and the firm is retained by a number of high-profile clients, including several global pharmaceutical companies. Its work in this space include monitoring such applications to identify potential infringements of intellectual property rights. The firm also advises on regulatory and compliance issues, and data privacy work. IT, consumer goods, and financial services are other sectors in which the firm is active. A name to note is senior associate Ramona Livera. Maria Kyriacou retired.

Eleni Chrysostomides heads up the ‘accessible and responsive’ practice at Dr K Chrysostomides & Co LLC, which acts on a diverse range of matters in IP, including trade mark, patent, design and copyright law issues, with an increased focus on contemporary fields such as online social platforms, video content platforms, online music sharing platforms, and user-generated content platforms. With ‘experience both in patent and trade mark matters in Cyprus’, Alexandros Georgiades is a key practitioner in this area, whose ‘advice is always practical and extremely useful’ for domestic and international clients.

The team at KOUSHOS KORFIOTIS PAPACHARALAMBOUS LLC advises clients, which include international pharmaceuticals companies and high-profile multinational corporations on a range of matters. Trade marks, patents, industrial designs, trade names, domain names, counterfeiting, copyrights, and IP-related litigation are among the myriad areas the firm focuses on. Practice head Eleni Papacharalambous is highly regarded.

Led by the experienced Tonia Antoniou, the team at Michael Kyprianou & Co. LLC acts for clients on a broad range of IP matters but has notable expertise handling trade mark registrations in Cyprus and the EU, as well as patent applications, validations, and renewals. The group also handles litigation and licensing matters. Associate Agis Charalambous, who works alongside Antoniou on most matters in this space, is another name to note.

Headed by Xenia Kasapi, the team at E & G Economides LLC attracts praise for its ‘in-depth knowledge and experience in intellectual property matters, especially with the registration of trade marks, designs, and patents at a European level’. Instructed by domestic and international clients, it also files oppositions against intellectual property registrations and drafts intellectual property rights licence transfers and confidentiality agreements. George Economides is also noted.

Andreas Coucounis & Co LLC specialises in advising prominent international clients on their IP rights in Cyprus. Recent work includes handling trade mark registrations and enforcement actions arising from infringements. Alexandros Coucounis heads up the practice.

Christodoulos G. Vassiliades & Co. LLC is a key name for international trade mark registrations. The team, which is led by Maria Kyriacou and Christodoulos G. Vassiliades, is also regularly instructed to produce due diligence reports on IP rights.

Deloitte Legal | Hadjianastassiou, Ioannides LLC’s practice advises on trade mark, brand protection, and copyright issues. Kypros Ioannides leads the practice, which has seen increased instructions from clients in niche, IT-related sectors including mobile games, software development, and financial technology. The team is ‘technically very strong’.

George Z. Georgiou & Associates LLC handles a broad range of work across IP and provides a ‘personal approach on all matters’. It advises on trade marks, patents, copyright and industrial designs; handles IP-related litigation, assists with the drafting of IP-related contracts, and advises clients from various industries on data protection and privacy matters. Clients include artists, distributors, companies, municipalities, banks, and international software companies. Managing partner George Z Georgiou heads up the practice.