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Assistance to VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS brewery on protecting its label design
We advised VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS, one of the most popular breweries in Latvia, during an intellectual property protection case. Specifically, one of the competitors of VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS started to distribute soft drinks with a similar design of labelling to VALMIERMUIŽAS ALUS’s products. Our assistance Our assistance included the preparation of two cease and desist letters and […]
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Gren acquires Rīgas Enerģija
With our assistance, the Northern European green energy company Gren has completed a transaction to acquire Rīgas Enerģija, a sustainable energy producer in Riga, adding to its fleet a biomass combined heat and power plant (CHP) that uses a local, renewable energy resource – woodchips – to produce clean and price-competitive heat energy and electricity. […]
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Major licence agreement arbitration
We are representing one of Europe’s leading aircraft engine and industrial gas turbine producers in an arbitration dispute with a Latvian company. The dispute arose over a licence agreement for the broadcasting rights of a significant European sports event. The claimant alleges that our client owes the licence fee, plus interest and a contractual penalty. […]
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A fair settlement reached for If P&C Insurance
Sorainen’s team of lawyers successfully represented the insurance company If P&C Insurance AS in legal proceedings which involved complicated issues of insurance law, regulation of consumer rights, competition law, and the boundary between civil proceedings in court and supervision by supervisory authorities during administrative proceedings. The proceedings also involved a number of complex procedural issues, […]
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Successful representation during trademark opposition
We represented our client, an international car maker, during trademark opposition proceedings, rebutting the opposition filed by another car maker before the Latvian Patent Office (the Appellate Board). The opposition was based on the other car maker’s earlier trademark, “VITO”, and was filed against our client’s trademark registration, “AITO”. We represented our client by drafting […]