We are specialized in the protection of Intellectual Property in Argentina.

Richelet & Richelet is one of the oldest and largest law firms specialized in the protection of Intellectual Property in Argentina.
The firm was founded in 1940. Since then, it has been engaged in rendering comprehensive and efficient legal assistance and services to local and foreign clients regarding the prosecution and protection of their Intellectual Property assets.
The commitment of our firm has always been the adequate protection and care of our clients´ rights, employing the highest professional and technical standards. In order to meet such commitment, our staff is required to have a sound knowledge of Intellectual Property Law by keeping abreast of the latest developments in the field.
For that purpose, all our members are required to actively participate in local and foreign seminars and in the weekly brain-storming our firm performs under the supervision of our senior partners.

Our staff has acquired, throughout more than 80 years of expertise.

Our staff has acquired, throughout more than 80 years of expertise, sound skills in specific and technical matters that help to provide solutions to our clients´ needs.
Richelet & Richelet believes that the work of authors and inventors represents the valuable material and the technological assets that promote one country’s economic progress. Moreover, we understand the rapid changes and complexities that take place in the actual market.

Our main focus is on the industrial and commercial objectives and interests of our clients.

That is why our main focus is on the industrial and commercial objectives and interests of our clients, with whose executives and staff we work closely in order to find the best way of achieving the results sought, combining creativity with profound and full-scale knowledge to support the solutions we propose.
Providing expert, creative, quick-responsive and cost-effective legal actions is our working standard. Counseling our clients before any step is taken is at the top of our professional priorities. Making clear to them where they stand regarding the protection of their assets is paramount to us.
Litigation has always been and still is one of the cornerstones of  Richelet & Richelet´s law practice. We specialize in defending our clients´ rights both in the administrative and judicial arenas. For that reason all our department directors have extensive litigation and dispute resolution practice.

We are a full service IP law firm. When it comes to IP we cover it all.

The activities of the firm are divided into different specific departments, all of which are directed by a specialist with legal and technical background in the respective field. However, such areas are not independent and interaction among the departments is encouraged, especially when the needs of our clients require so.
Our firm has a wide range of competent and carefully selected associates throughout the country and the world. This enables us to provide efficient assistance in the management of our clients´ portfolios and to render the most effective legal assistance, not only all over Argentina, but in all South and Latin American countries as well.
Richelet & Richelet is a full service IP law firm. When it comes to IP we cover it all.

Services

Our firm is involved in all aspects of Intellectual Property matters, such as:

  • Availability searches and watch service
  • Filing national and international trade and service mark applications and obtaining registrations thereof
  • Filing administrative or judicial appeals against PTO rejections
  • Handling opposition, replevin, cancellation and nullity actions before the Federal Courts
  • Enforcement of trade and service mark rights and handling civil and criminal infringement Court actions
  • Protection and enforcement of trade names and trade dress rights
  • Ambush Marketing issues
  • Drafting confidentiality and non-compete agreement
  • Protection and enforcement
  • Prior art searches
  • Drafting and filing of patent, utility model and industrial model & design applications, and obtaining registrations thereof
  • Filing observations against third parties´ applications
  • Filing administrative or judicial appeals against PTO rejections
  • Handling cancellation and nullity actions before the Federal Courts
  • Enforcement of rights before civil and criminal Federal Courts
  • Filing applications for registration of seeds and plant varieties before authorized entities
  • Filing administrative or judicial appeals against rejections of applications
  • Handling cancellation and nullity Court actions
  • Enforcement of plant breeders´ rights
  • Protection of works and obtaining copyright registrations thereof
  • Software and database protection
  • Handling invalidation Court actions
  • Enforcement of right holders before civil and criminal Courts
  • Full range of IP litigation and related matters in civil and criminal Courts
  • Anticounterfeiting
  • Obtaining and executing precautionary measures and injunctions
  • Border enforcements
  • Negotiations and settlements
  • Participation in ADR
  • Execution of laudums, awards and judicial decisions
  •  Publicity and comparative advertisement matters
  • Antitrust issues
  • Approvals of acquisitions of IP assets when necessary
  • Drafting Know How, License, Transfer of Technology, Distribution, Agency, Franchise, Edition, Sponsorship, Software and other related agreements
  • Registration of agreements when necessary
  • Enforcement of the agreements and the rights derived thereof
  • Domain names availability searches
  • Filing national and international domain name applications and obtaining registrations thereof
  • National and international domain name recoveries
  • Enforcement of IP rights against infringers
  • Agreements and settlements
  • Filing applications when applicable by law and obtaining registrations thereof
  • Enforcement of rights
  • Verification and evaluation of IP assets
  • IP valuation
  • Verification and evaluation of IP assets
  • IP valuation
  • Verification and evaluation of IP assets
  • IP valuation

Memberships

Richelet & Richelet and all of its associates and partners belong to a large number of National and International organizations and associations throughout the globe, the most important of which being the following:

AAAPI

Argentinean Industrial Property Agents Association

CPACF

National Bar Association

CACF

Buenos Aires Bar Association

AIPPI

Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle

INTA

International Trademark Association

LES

Licensing Executives Society

ASIPI

Interamerican Industrial Property Association

IABA

Interamerican Bar Association

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