Univisual offers assistance and consultancy with regards to intellectual property on the legal protection of a trademark.

The economic-financial value and strategic importance that a brand currently boasts nowadays for a firm, in terms of business, implies the need to specifically focus on the entire protection process of the trademark portfolio.

Univisual’s clients are assisted – since the strategic and creative conception phase of the brand – through a consolidated methodology that implements a multi-year know-how on the trademark and its derivatives.

In fact, in order to limit the imitation risks of a trademark, the consultancy activity is inborn in the natural brand conception process, and we assist the Client’s legal office from preliminary searches until the registration phase.

In case of trademarks already present on the market, we provide assistance, beginning with a Technical appraisal of the trademark, identifying the criticalities before proceeding with any legal procedures.

Moreover, in case of breaches of a trademark protection rights and pending law suits, Univisual offers assistance through the analysis of the problem, evaluation of the legal status and proposal of an effective action strategy.

Some skills and services offered:

- Analysis of pending law suits

- Evaluations on the legal validity requirements of a trademark

- Technical appraisals of existing trademarks

- Analysis of any ‘’non-registered’’ trademark title

- Analysis of the distinctive ability of a trademark

- Evaluation of a ‘’weak trademark’’ or ‘’strong trademark’’

- Identification of the trademark ‘’features’’ that can be legally protected

- Assistance to the Client’s Legal Office

- Evaluation of the registration product categories

- Evaluations on inventorship and exploitation rights

- Clearance, identity and similitude searches

- Trademark registration strategy

- Textual description of a trademark for proper registration

- Coordination for filing a legal registration application of a trademark 

Gaetano Grizzanti, founder and President of Univisual, is an Expert of the Court of Milan with regards to trademarks as party-appointed technical consultant and public consultant, registered at the Court of Milan in Category XXV/12 (factory trademarks) under Roll no. 2724-2011.