Trademark portfolio management.
Registering a mark is the start. Keeping it valid, assigning it, licensing it and defending it against conflicts is work that is easy to forget, until it is too late.
We take over the management of your trademarks. We track renewal deadlines so no registration lapses through oversight, we prepare assignments in a sale or restructuring, we draft licence agreements and we monitor new applications that could conflict with your brand. You know the portfolio is under control.
A portfolio that does not lapse through oversight.
A trademark is valid for ten years and renews within a narrow window. A missed deadline means losing rights you spent years building.
Deadlines you will not miss
A registration can be renewed only within the statutory window. We track it for you, well in advance, so you have time to decide which marks to renew.
Monitoring that catches a conflict in time
We watch new applications and flag those that come close to your brand. An opposition can be filed only within a short period after publication, after that only through the courts.
Assignments and licences with no register errors
Selling a company, a restructuring or licensing a brand all require a change to be entered in the register. We prepare the documents and the entry so that rights pass cleanly.
One overview in one place
You get a clear overview of which marks you own, where they are valid and when they come up for renewal. No spreadsheets nobody remembers.
Everything a portfolio needs to hold its value.
Renewals and deadline tracking
We record the validity of every registration and remind you of a renewal well in advance. A trademark renewal, meaning its extension for another ten years, can be done only within the statutory window. You decide which marks to renew, and we carry out the trademark renewal for you.
Monitoring of conflicting applications
Trademark monitoring means we watch newly filed applications and flag those that could be confused with your brand, in time to file oppositions against a conflicting application.
Trademark assignments
In a sale, restructuring or move of a brand between companies, the basis is a trademark assignment agreement, which we prepare, together with the entry of the new owner in the register. A trademark sale and its assignment then go through cleanly.
Brand licensing
If you want to grant your brand to a partner, franchisee or subsidiary, we draft a trademark licence that defines the scope of use and protects the value of the brand.
Portfolio audit and clean-up
For inherited or long-neglected portfolios, we check what you actually own, where the gaps are and which registrations no longer make sense to maintain.
Ranked, year after year.
Independent rankings consistently place Ambit among the leading firms in CEE across Corporate, M&A, Banking & Finance, IT & IP.
Jaroslav Menčík
Jaroslav Menčík is a Partner at Ambit. His practice spans intellectual property, IT law and technology transactions, helping companies protect brands, software and other intangible assets, from trademark registration to disputes over unauthorised use. He studied law at Masaryk University in Brno and Charles University in Prague (JUDr., Ph.D.) and holds an LL.M. from NYU School of Law as a Hauser Global Scholar. His background in economics (Ing.) lets him bring a financial and strategic perspective to every mandate.