ENFORCEMENT AND
COPYRIGHT
A registration is a tool, not a result. We use it — at the customs line, before the
Registrar, and in the criminal courts
- S C O P E
WHAT WE HANDLE
Equity sits inside Abdeen & Co Advocates and Legal Consultants. That matters most here. When a mark is opposed or copied, the file does not move to a different firm, and the people who prosecuted the registration are the people who defend it.
Most counterfeit goods arrive through the ports. A customs recordal, renewed each year, is the cheapest piece of enforcement a brand owner can buy — and it works while nobody is watching.
S E R V I C E S
- Annual recordal of marks with customs
- Seizure support and release opposition at the border
- Opposition and counter-opposition before the Registrar
- Cancellation and non-use actions
- Criminal action against counterfeit goods
- Copyright and software recordal
- Licence agreements and domain name recordal
- Gazette watch for look-alike applications
- SEQUENCE
HOW AN INFRINGEMENT FILE RUNS
REPORT AND VERIFY
You send samples, photographs or a shipment reference. We verify the right on the register and confirm standing.
1–3 DAYS
BUILD THE EVIDENCE
Market survey, purchase evidence and a comparison report against the registered mark.
WEEK 1-2
CHOOSE THE ROUTE
Customs seizure, a cease and desist, an administrative action or a criminal complaint — with the cost of each set out before you decide.
YOUR DECISION
ACT AND REPORT
We run the action and report at each stage, with the goods, the outcome and the cost in one statement
THROUGH TO OUTCOME
- FEES
ENFORCEMENT CHARGES
Contentious and customs items from the published
schedule. Court disbursements are quoted separately.