Protection and management of trademark rights

Our team has extensive experience and considerable expertise in trademark and design protection issues, as well as management of rights portfolios in Norway and abroad. Through strategic counselling, we help our clients achieve and maintain robust and cost-effective protection.

CMS Kluge assists small and large, Norwegian, and international organisations with, among other things:

• Strategic assessments and counselling related to protection needs
• Preliminary investigations, availability and clearance searches
• Preparation and filing of trademark and design applications in Norway and abroad
• Prosecution of trademark and design applications before the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO) and the IP Appeal Board
• Administrative opposition and cancellation processes
• Enforcement of trademark and design rights
• Trademark litigation
• Renewal of trademark and design registrations
• Monitoring and surveillance of rights
• Overall handling and management of Norwegian and international rights portfolios

Through the international CMS co-operation, we also have immediate access to leading international expertise in other national markets where local assistance is required.