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Cross-Border IP Investigation & Brand Protection Support

Starting with infringement leads and progressively reconstructing the underlying business activity

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When a business identifies a potential trademark, copyright, design or other intellectual property issue in an overseas market, the first questions are often not abstract legal ones.

They are factual:

What is actually happening?

In what form does the relevant factual information exist?

How is it being displayed, communicated and distributed?

What relationships exist among the information, the channels through which it appears and the businesses involved?

A cross-border environment makes these questions even harder to answer.

Starting with information provided by the client, AONARI searches large volumes of publicly available information for relevant leads and adjusts search methods and investigative paths as the investigation develops.

We progressively organize the relationships among the client's rights, relevant information, businesses and market activities, providing factual information to support subsequent business decisions and responses.

Depending on the purpose of the project, the investigation may cover:

01Products suspected of infringement and related sales activities

02E-commerce stores, social media accounts, websites and other online businesses or operators

03Companies, business entities and related publicly available registration information

04Contact details and publicly visible connections that may exist among different businesses

05Leads relating to product display, promotion, sales and distribution

06Connections between online activity and physical markets

07Historical publicly available information and changes over time

08Other publicly available leads relevant to the client's subsequent assessment or response

AONARI does not make legal determinations in place of lawyers, patent attorneys or other regulated legal professionals.

Our role is to conduct factual investigation, verify information and organize materials so that rights holders and their professional advisers have a factual basis for further assessment, strategy and subsequent action.

CONTACT

Start with one specific question.

If you are dealing with an intellectual property, brand protection, online lead or market information issue in a cross-border context, tell us what you currently know and what you would like to confirm further.

Based on the purpose of the project, the subject of the investigation and the leads currently available, we will determine what form of investigation and information support we may be able to provide.