IP Law Advisory

Your brand is your identity. We help you secure and defend your trademarks locally and globally—whether you're launching a startup or scaling across continents.

• Conducting local and international trademark searches.
• Filing trademark applications in Kenya and with ARIPO, WIPO (Madrid System).
• Advisory on trademark eligibility, distinctiveness, and classification.
• Drafting brand usage guidelines and internal brand protection policies.
• Enforcing trademark rights through oppositions, cease-and-desist letters, and litigation.
• Monitoring trademark infringement online and across jurisdictions.
• Support for brand licensing, franchising, and co-branding agreements.
• Advising on AI-generated brand names and branding strategy in digital spaces.

Whether you're a content creator, software developer, or publisher—we help you assert control over your work and monetize it in the digital age.

• Copyright registration and advisory for literary, musical, artistic, audiovisual, and software works.
• Drafting licensing agreements, performance rights, and royalty-sharing arrangements.
• Protection of digital content, websites, designs, and social media IP.
• Advisory on fair use, moral rights, and derivative works.
• Legal risk assessments for content created or modified using AI (text, image, code, music).
• Combatting piracy, unauthorized streaming, and digital reproduction.
• Legal guidance for NFTs, digital art, and blockchain-authenticated works.
• Take-down procedures and enforcement on digital platforms and online marketplaces.

From groundbreaking inventions to incremental improvements, we help innovators protect technical ideas before they're replicated or reverse-engineered.

• Patentability assessments and technical documentation review.
• Filing patent applications in Kenya and internationally (ARIPO, PCT/WIPO routes).
• Advisory on utility models, industrial designs, and software patent eligibility.
• Drafting inventor agreements and IP assignment frameworks.
• Patent licensing, commercialization, and joint development advisory.
• Patent watch services and enforcement against infringers.
• AI-related invention support—protecting algorithmic methods, system architectures, and hybrid innovations.
• Strategy for protecting AI-assisted inventions where human inventorship is challenged.

We help you preserve the competitive edge that comes from proprietary knowledge, confidential algorithms, and business know-how.

• Drafting NDAs, confidentiality clauses, and internal secrecy protocols.
• Structuring legal frameworks for protecting source code, algorithms, and datasets.
• Advisory on employee onboarding, offboarding, and IP leakage prevention.
• Trade secret misappropriation litigation and enforcement.
• Legal safeguards for proprietary customer lists, pricing models, and product roadmaps.
• IP protection strategies for AI/ML training data and proprietary model weights.
• Cross-border protection of sensitive business information and know-how.
• Custom policies for maintaining secrecy in distributed or remote-first teams.

We offer robust legal support to enforce your rights and defend your assets when infringement or unauthorized use arises—online or offline, locally or globally.

• Investigating and documenting IP infringement cases.
• Drafting cease-and-desist notices and negotiating settlements.
• Representation in IP litigation, arbitration, and administrative hearings.
• Customs enforcement strategies and anti-counterfeiting support.
• Coordinating takedown actions on digital platforms and e-commerce sites.
• Cross-border IP enforcement under international treaties and regional mechanisms.
• Crisis response for unauthorized AI use of your IP (e.g. scraped content or model training).
• Legal defense in cases where you're accused of IP violation or misuse.

We help you turn your intellectual property into real business value through licensing, deals, and partnerships.

• Structuring IP licensing, franchising, and technology transfer agreements.
• Advisory on IP valuation for fundraising, mergers, or joint ventures.
• Legal audits to consolidate and prepare your IP portfolio for investor or acquirer scrutiny.
• Royalty structuring and income stream protection.
• IP bundling strategies for SaaS, AI-as-a-Service, and other IP-heavy models.
• Drafting and negotiating co-creation, white-labeling, and IP-sharing arrangements.
• Developing IP commercialization playbooks for research institutions and startups.
• Legal roadmap for transforming R&D into protected, monetizable assets.

We guide you through the shifting legal terrain where AI, automation, and generative tools are challenging traditional notions of IP ownership and infringement.

• Risk audits for AI-generated content and derivative works.
• Legal strategy for asserting copyright or patent over AI-assisted outputs.
• Advisory on ownership and authorship in collaborative AI-human creation.
• Frameworks for licensing generative AI models and user-generated content platforms.
• Contractual protections in using third-party generative tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney).
• Structuring IP protections for prompt engineers, dataset creators, and model developers.
• Advising tech teams on training data legality and content scraping risks.
• Legal opinion work on frontier IP disputes tied to emerging technologies.