HUNGARY Law and Practice Contributed by: Árpád Pethő, Levente Pethő, Eszter Szakács and József Tálas, Danubia Patent & Law Office
Danubia Patent & Law Office is a full-service Hungarian IP law firm providing services that cover patents, trade marks and all fields of pro- tecting, enforcing and defending IP rights. The firm’s professional staff consists of registered European patent and trade mark attorneys, as well as associated attorneys at law, operating under the brand Danubia Legal and specialis- ing mainly in trade mark and patent enforce- ment. Danubia is involved in almost all signifi-
cant pharma patent and SPC litigation cases in Hungary, representing the big pharma (origina- tor) companies. The firm also obtains European patents and community trade marks and de- signs from the EUIPO and EPO, and has nota- bly represented clients before the CJEU. Danu- bia is also an important player in the country’s IT litigation field, and in the mechanical and elec- trical patent litigation fields, mostly representing domestic clients.
Authors
Árpád Pethő is the managing partner of Danubia Patent & Law Office. His key practice areas are patent prosecution (in Hungary and before the EPO) and litigation (in Hungary) in the
Levente Pethő is a partner at Danubia Patent & Law Office and an executive of Danubia IP Ltd. His key practice areas include IP valuation, licensing and technology transfer
biotech and pharma fields. He is a member of the Chamber of Hungarian Patent Attorneys (and a member of the presidium), the epi Biotech Committee, the epi Council, the Hungarian Industrial Property and Copyright Association (executive president), and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). Árpád is a frequent lecturer at domestic and international IP law conferences.
transactions, IP policies, IP strategy and IP management consultancy, in numerous industrial sectors. Levente is vice-chair of the IP Valuation Committee at the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), a founding member and vice-president of the Association for the Management and Valuation of Intangibles (AMAVI), a member of the Hungarian Industrial Property and Copyright Association, and a board member of the Hungarian chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI).
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