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 MIDGLOBE is the leading authority on IPR legislation in the Jordan, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. We pride ourselves in our expertise in promoting IPR. Our efforts in the field have been reinforced by the National Center for Intellectual Property Rights, (NCIPR), which MIDGLOBE created in 1999. The NCIPR conducts seminars and trainings about IPR-related issues, provides consultations and analysis for local and international institutions and bodies regarding IPR, and raises public awareness about the issue.
Midglobe lawyers have advised companies of all sizes in virtually every area of business and professional activity in developing, valuing, licensing, and protecting their intellectual property. The business counsel that Midglobe provides to our high-tech, telecommunications, media, and sports and entertainment clients guides their planning and decision-making in advertising, franchising, employment agreements, technology transfer and licensing, asset valuation, taxation, finance (including IPOs), mergers, and acquisitions. The scope of our legal advice in intellectual property asset management is increasingly multinational.
Midglobe has developed extensive experience in protecting intellectual property such as patents, trade secrets, trademarks, service marks, and copyrights. Our experience includes providing industry-specific and knowledgeable strategic business counsel. We have addressed registration and prosecution of trademarks, licensing, royalties, infringement and remedies, counterfeiting actions, trade secret claims, and business method protection programs.
Midglobe’s patent practice entails preparing and prosecuting international patent applications and re-examination proceedings, conducting patentability studies, and preparing and negotiating licensing agreements. Consistently guided by clients' business objectives, our IP attorneys carefully analyze client patent portfolios, a process developed and refined by years of conscientious client counseling and representation. All commercial operations whose capital includes intellectual property assets will inevitably encounter infringement and validity challenges. Our clients benefit from our IP attorneys' understanding of the strategy involved in determining when and how to respond to a notice and when and if it is appropriate to initiate a study.
 Protecting IP assets often involves adversarial negotiation and litigation. Midglobe attorneys regularly counsel and represent clients in court on issues of patent, trade secret, copyright, trade dress and trademark infringement, false and comparative advertising, and unfair competition.
Over the years, Midglobe has established an outstanding network of domestic and foreign intellectual property attorneys with whom we work collegially on complex and multi-jurisdictional cases. Each of our network attorneys has been selected for the quality of legal work, client responsiveness, and commitment to efficient work process. Both the work done and the fees charged are closely monitored by Midglobe attorneys who oversee these files. We have litigated IP matters throughout the nation and currently manage active trademark files in most countries around the world.
TRADEMARKS
MIDGLOBE counsels and represents clients on a wide-range of trademark related issues. Our trademark lawyers provide a variety of services including initial searches and aiding our clients in the selection, registration, and maintenance of trademarks.
MIDGLOBE also represents clients in trademark disputes, infringements, and other trademark-related litigation. MIDGLOBE is a member of both the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the International Chamber of Commerce/Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (ICC/CIB).
Our experience in all aspects of trademark law is complimented by our systematic approach to each matter we manage.
Evaluate
Our attorneys assist in evaluating the availability, potential strength and value of proposed marks, including conducting investigations and reviewing search results for trademark clearances throughout the world.
File
We provide opinion letters and prepare and file trademark applications both domestically and internationally.
Prosecute
We prosecute applications and obtain registrations for trademarks, service marks, collective marks, certification marks and non-traditional marks, as well as obtain registrations for translated foreign language marks.
Litigate
We also litigate trademark, trade dress, and domain name disputes on behalf of trademark owners and accused infringers.
PATENTS
MIDGLOBE provides comprehensive legal services on patents, from conducting an initial search to the filing of an application for a patent. We also have extensive experience in patent-related litigation. In patent litigation, we have long combined the talents and resources of experienced trial attorneys with the technical knowledge of experienced patent attorneys. These attorneys, with different but complementary skills, work together to present all technical issues accurately and effectively, making sure that the complexities of the case are understandable in the courtroom and that all appellate rights are preserved. We regularly try patent infringement cases, obtaining judgments for plaintiffs as well as verdicts of non-infringement for defendants.
Our attorneys work with clients to create a diversified patent portfolio that provides different levels of protection and are constantly reevaluated as business goals and intellectual property goals evolve. Our patent prosecutors are also patent litigators, which allows them to draw on their experience and insight to secure unparalleled protection for clients, enabling those patents to be used for licensing, litigation or to raise capital.
COPYRIGHTS
 MIDGLOBE was the first organization to enforce copyright laws in Jordan. We have drafted regulations and laws for the Jordanian government and provide regular trainings to Jordanian customs police, judges, lawyers, and the media regarding copyright regulations. Midglobe’s experienced copyright lawyers deal with a wide-range of copyright issues for many types of copyrighted materials, specializing in publishing and software.
Midglobe monitors copyright developments worldwide, counsel clients on compliance, and assist with business transactions and disputes involving copyrightable materials. The advent of the Internet, electronic mail, and cyberspace has created new and unique legal issues. Our attorneys have accordingly developed innovative business solutions for clients regarding electronic contracting and publishing, copyright protection in cyberspace, encryption and privacy issues, and the use and control of electronic mail.
We have substantial knowledge and experience in the computer software industry, having counseled several industry-leading companies on matters relating to the scope of copyright protection, research and development issues, copyright ownership, work-for-hire issues, and third-party proposals of ideas or information.
 When copyright disputes arise, our attorneys take an active role in counseling clients on the risks and rewards of litigation. We have successfully represented clients in major software and publication companies such as Electronic Arts, Pearson Education, Harcourt, John Wiley, and Adobe and other international and national clients.
MIDGLOBE has successfully represented the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which acts on the behalf of Microsoft, Novel, Autodisc and other international corporations.We have also successfully represented other major software and publication companies such as Electronic Arts, Pearson Education, Harcourt, John Wiley, and Adobe among other well-known names.
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