How do I protect my know-how and intellectual property rights in the partnership?

The brand, technology and know-how contributed to the partnership must be clearly defined through licence agreements, and who retains ownership and what happens upon separation must be set down from the outset. Together with confidentiality and non-compete provisions, we protect your intellectual capital throughout the partnership and thereafter.

Two steps make the protection concrete: register the rights formally — trademarks, patents and designs, under the Industrial Property Law (No. 6769) — so ownership is provable rather than merely asserted, and decide in advance who owns the “foreground” IP jointly developed during the venture. Background know-how you bring in should stay licensed, never transferred, so that it returns fully to you on exit.