Osondu Onwubiko
Osondu is the Lead Counsel at Mandel Solicitors. He heads…
Intellectual Property
We help our clients to protect their intellectual property and monetize them. We assist with IP enforcement actions and opposition proceedings for trademarks.
Top Intellectual Property Law Firm in Nigeria
As a top Intellectual Property law firm in Nigeria, we assist clients all over the world to protect their Intellectual Property in Nigeria. We are a licensed Copyright, Trademark and Patent law firm and we regularly make applications for the protection of our clients’ intellectual property rights. We render legal advisory services to our clients and enforce their intellectual property rights. Our Intellectual Property lawyers have many years of experience in providing legal assistance to our clients through their understanding of the diverse aspects of intellectual property.
Our Intellectual Property law clients operate in the technology, healthcare, media and entertainment and Technology sectors and span across Russia, China, UK, India, Nigeria, etc. Our clients trust us to assist in the protection of their intellectual property rights through trademark, patent and copyright filings and registrations and the enforcement of their intellectual property rights through the court when infringed upon. We constantly assist our clients to register their intellectual property with African Intellectual Property Regional Organisation (ARIPO) and African Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI) We also register our clients’ products with the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) among others.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Intellectual Property (IP) Advisory
- Searches
- Filing Trademark Applications
- Filing Patent Applications
- Patents Licensing and Assignment
- Trademarks Licensing and Assignment
- Franchising
- Trademark Infringements Redress
- Trademark Opposition and Defence
- Trademark cancellation proceedings
- Copyrights
- Filing industrial designs
- Drafting and reviewing Intellectual Property contracts and agreements
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Arbitration
- Food, drug, chemical, cosmetics, medical equipment and devices registration with NAFDAC
- Standard Organisation of Nigeria SONCAP Certificate
- Domain Name registration with NITDA
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