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Our specialist team of experts will offer you quick, cost-effective, proactive and expert legal advice on the registration, maintenance, protection and enforcement of your intellectual property rights portfolio. We pride ourselves at offering a quality service to our clients. Our commitment is illustrated by the fact that one of our specialist experts holds a Doctor of Laws Degree in Mercantile Law (Specializing in Trademark Law).

We also undertake searches of trademark and industrial design applications before the Belize Intellectual Property Office (BELIPO), and advise on the distinctiveness required for trademark registration under Belizean Law. Once registered, we will monitor your trademark portfolio through our trademark watching services. We are also able to, and have expertise in, exploiting licensing opportunities for our clients under Belizean law by drafting and negotiating complex licensing and assignment agreements, or advising as to the compliance of such agreements with Belizean trademark law and practice.

We additionally have experience in the following areas; preparing, filing and prosecuting trademark, certification marks, collective marks, patents, utility models, industrial designs, new plant vanities and integrated circuits registrations before BELIPO; negotiating, drafting and enforcing trademark, industrial design and patent licenses and assignments or advising on their compliance with Belizean law; investigating potentially infringing trademark registrations and prosecuting opposition and cancellation proceedings before BELIPO; preparing and updating trademark watch reports; monitoring the importation of potentially infringing trademarks into Belizean customs territory; drafting and responding to cease and desist letters, and advising clients on policing their intellectual property rights portfolios to avoid abandonment, or infringement.

We invite you to review our site to learn more about our specialist team of experts, our services, Belizean intellectual property law, our publications and much more.