{"id":1727912,"date":"2024-10-30T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/?post_type=meet-the-team&#038;p=1727912"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:22:49","slug":"intellectual-property-36","status":"publish","type":"meet-the-team","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/meet-the-team\/intellectual-property-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst our Malta intellectual property law interests lie primarily in technology and software related issues, GVZH Advocates offers a full spectrum of IP related services, advising clients on trademark, copyright and patent-related work.<\/p>\n<p>This includes filing trade mark and patent applications, prosecution of unlawful competition and infringement actions, as well as a large enforcement and anti-counterfeiting practice, whereby we advise a great number of large multinational firms, and act as their local brand representatives for cross-border protection purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Our IP practice covers the following services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software licensing contracts;<\/li>\n<li>Software development agreements;<\/li>\n<li>Transfer of IP rights and internet domain-names;<\/li>\n<li>IP escrow agreements;<\/li>\n<li>Handling, processing and assignment of customer databases;<\/li>\n<li>Registration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gvzh.mt\/services\/practice-areas\/ip-intellectual-property\/trademark\/\">trademarks<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gvzh.mt\/services\/practice-areas\/ip-intellectual-property\/patents\/\">patents\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gvzh.mt\/services\/practice-areas\/ip-intellectual-property\/designs\/\">designs<\/a>\u00a0in Malta and within the EU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1727912","meet-the-team","type-meet-the-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/meet-the-team\/1727912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/meet-the-team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/meet-the-team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}