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The Firm is the leading Intellectual Property practice in Uganda and has the distinction of 115 years of experience in the acquisition, development, registration and commercialization of intellectual property rights across the Globe.

• Helping clients protect and promote inventions, brands and designs through registration of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and related industrial property.

• Advising clients on the protection accorded to patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights, utility models, licenses, trade secrets, technology transfer agreements, collective marks, plant breeders’ rights, highly specialized biotechnology rights, geographical indications, and traditional knowledge under Uganda’s legal framework.

• Acting for clients in objection proceedings, revocations, appeals and actions for infringement at both administrative and judicial levels.
• Protecting the industrial property rights of Clients through enforcement of remedies with the assistance of Public Authorities.
• Acting for clients in the pharmaceutical, automotive, electronics, information technology, chemicals, food, wines and spirits, manufacturing and consumer goods industries.
• Acting for clients in applications for and enforcement of Pre-trial and Post- judgment remedies as well as enforcement of Foreign Awards.
• Acting on behalf of clients at the National Office, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) giving the unique ability to register Intellectual Property Rights at both continental and international levels.

• The Firm has acted for over a thousand Clients in the registration of their patents, trademarks, copyrights, and industrial designs.
• The Firm has also acted for Clients in litigation and enforcement of all aspects of intellectual property such as trademarks, patents, copyright, and neighboring rights, geographical indications, industrial designs, and assignments.
• The Firm has represented several Clients in numerous Industrial Property matters such as actions in passing off, objections to registration, infringement of copyright among others.
• The Firm has acted for leading international agents in the registration of Industrial property
• The Firm has acted for leading pharmaceutical Companies in obtaining Anton Piller Orders in respect to substandard, counterfeit and dangerous medical products.
• The Firm has advised renowned Academic Institutions on their options for registration and commercialization of their research output relating to Scientific discoveries and Inventions by Students and Lectures.

Yusufu Kagumire, & Dennis Wamala

• Japan
• S.C. Johnson  Son, Inc.
• Bradstock Services AG Germany
• Dennemeyer & Associates
• ROCHE Diagnostics Gnb