Erik Špila
Intellectual Property Lawyer with focus on Startups, Trademarks and Designs
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Biography
Practice with focus on the modern areas of law such as Startups, Influencers, Gaming, App development, Designers in intellectual property matters like trademarks, design law, copyright or other related areas.
Graduated Comenius University in 2017 as Master of Laws. Subsequently Graduated as Doctor of Law in 2019 within Intellectual Property Law area with focus on European Union Trademark Law. Practicing Law since 2017.
Practice Areas
- Intellectual Property
- Trademarks
- Trademark Litigation, Trademark Registration
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Additional Practice Area
- Design law
Video Conferencing
- Google Meet
Fees
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Free Consultation
Initial consultation is free of charge. Afterwards the legal fees are subject to client-attorney agreement. I always take the client needs and situation into account when we are discussing the price.
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- European Union
- ID Number: Attorney at Law
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Languages
- Czech: Spoken
- English: Spoken, Written
- Slovak: Spoken, Written
Professional Experience
- Attorney at Law
- Law Firm
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- Freelance Legal Practice with focus on Intellectual Property Law, Trademark and Design protection, Business name protection, Startup advisory, Company establishment, IP audit, IP monitoring and more.
- Attorney at Law Associate
- Kompan k. s. Law Firm
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- Focus on IP law and Corporate law. IP law - Filing applications for Trademarks and Designs on national and EU level. - Counseling on Trademark and Design matters. - Intellectual property strategies and recommendations. - Drafting documents related to Trademark and Design law. - Drafting opinions, recommendations and observations related to Trademark proceedings. - Performing IP researches and monitoring. - Writing professional articles related to intellectual property law. - Communication with clients. Corporate law - Establishment of businesses. - Changes in companies. - Drafting contracts. - Drafting corporate documents. - Counseling related to businesses. - Communication with clients.
- Patent and Trademark Attorney Trainee
- Litvakova and co. Patent and Trademark Attorneys
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- Focus on Trademark and Design law. - Performing Trademark researches and monitoring. - Filing Trademark and Design applications. - Filing renewal of Trademarks. - Drafting filings for Trademark proceedings. - Communication with clients.
Education
- Comenius University
- J.D. (2019) | Intellectual Property Law
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- European Union Trademark
- Activities: Trademarks
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- Comenius University
- Mgr. (2017) | Law
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- Activities: Intellectual Property Law
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Awards
- Passed with Merit
- Slovak Bar Association
- Passed with Merit on Slovak Bar Exam.
Professional Associations
- Slovenska Advokatska Komora # 8555
- Advokát
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Publications
Articles & Publications
- European Union Trademark
- Comenius University
Certifications
- Attorney at Law exam
- Slovak Bar Association
- SPECIALIZED COURSE ON THE MADRID SYSTEM FOR THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF MARKS
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- Video gaming and IP: how to play the game
- European Union Intellectual Property Office
- IP HORIZON 5.0 CONFERENCE
- European Union Intellectual Property Office
- IP PANORAMA
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- GENERAL COURSE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- International Legal English Certificate
- British Council
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Legal Answers
109 Questions Answered
- Q. How much does a trademark usually costs?
- A: Hello, the answer to your question depends various other circumstances such as in which country you are seeking trademark protection, if you are willing to use the lawyer services or not, if you are going to do preliminary trademark search and so on. I advice you to contact IP lawyer and provide her/him with more details so the price calculation can be made.
- Q. Can I run my own virtual boutique firm while working for another law firm?
- A: In most jurisdiction there is a law that says that this would be considered as a a breach of non-competition with your employer. You must therefore find a pertinent laws in your country which states what are the restrictions for your profession. Also you need to check out your employment contract as there can be a non-compete clause included. Finaly you should consider discussing this with your employer, as he will most probably find out that you have this virtual firm anyway.
- Q. I just received a patent infringement strike on Amazon. Can you help me?
- A: Well the outcome of this may differ depending on various different circumstances you have not provided.
Qualified IP lawyer needs to check out and examine claims of the opponent and also your IP.
After that you can either negotiate licence terms with opponent or you can withdraw your listing and a few other options depending on the whole situation.
I recommend you to seek a local IP attorney to advice you more on this.
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