Intellectual property: what we take on and how a file starts
Intellectual property work here splits into four decisions: who owns a right, how it moves between parties, how it is enforced, and how a regulator supervises assets built on it. Every practice below answers exactly one of these four questions. A file starts once you tell us which one applies to your case, and a partner confirms the scope before anything else moves.
This pillar sits next to Technology and data, because disputes over code, data sets and trained models often start as a property question before they become a compliance one. A dataset can be owned, licensed, misused and regulated at the same time, and the question you ask first usually decides which practice reads the file. The three areas below split intellectual property by decision, forum and deadline, not by industry or by the kind of asset involved.
Clients who reach this page work across Lithuania, Estonia and the wider EU market, often through more than one entity. That structure changes which register a right sits in and which authority hears a dispute about it, but it does not change the four decisions above. A licence dispute is still a licence dispute whether it runs through one jurisdiction or three.
What each practice decides
| Practice | Decision it answers | Typical trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing, transfers and IP structures overview | How a right is licensed, assigned or held inside a group, and what happens when the agreement is silent on a point. | A licence is being negotiated, renewed, or one party claims the wording does not cover a use already under way. |
| Patent protection, disputes and recovery overview | Whether an invention, mark or design can be protected, and how infringement is stopped and recovered once it happens. | A competitor is using a protected right without permission, or a filing needs to move before someone else files first. |
| Authorisation and supervision overview in detail | Whether an activity built on tokenised or digital assets needs a licence, and who supervises it once granted. | A product built on digital assets is close to launch and the licensing question has not been settled yet. |
The table answers a narrow question on purpose. It tells you which practice reads your file, not what the outcome will be. Outcome depends on facts that a pillar page cannot hold — the wording of your agreement, the jurisdiction of the right, and whether a counterpart has already acted.
How a file starts
Each of the three practices above opens a file the same way. We ask for the document at the centre of the question first, before we ask anything else.
- Send the contract, registration certificate, filing draft or cease-and-desist letter that raised the question.
- State the jurisdiction where the right is registered, used or disputed.
- Name the counterpart, if a negotiation or a dispute is already under way.
- Say whether a deadline is already running — a response window, a filing date, a renewal date.
- A partner reads the file and confirms which practice above applies to it.
- You receive a first substantive response from a partner, in writing, within minutes during business hours.
The order matters more than the volume. A one-page licence with a running deadline moves ahead of a thick file with no deadline at all, because the deadline decides what can still be done.
Who reviews the file
The partner assigned to the matching practice reviews the file first. If a matter touches more than one practice — a licence dispute that also raises a supervision question, for instance — both partners confirm the scope before work starts. Neither practice waits for the other to finish reading before telling you what it needs.
Two common starting points
- If you are negotiating a licence or an assignment and need the clauses checked before signature, licensing and transfers is the starting practice.
- If someone is using your invention, mark or design without permission, patents and disputes takes the file and confirms what recovery looks like.
- If you are launching a product built on tokenised assets and need to know whether a licence applies before launch, authorisation and supervision reviews it.
A file can move between these three during review. That is normal, and it does not restart the clock on the first response you already received.
Sources and limit
This page is a map, not a ruling. It cites no statute, no regulation and no court decision, because a hub page has no single jurisdiction and no single fact pattern to anchor a citation to. Each practice page below states its own sources, its own applicable law and its own review date, and those dates can differ from one page to the next. Read the practice page that matches your question before relying on anything written here, and treat this page only as the reason you landed on that one.
Frequently asked questions
What does this change in practice?
Reading this page alone changes nothing on its own. It tells you which of the three practices matches your question, so the right partner reads the file first instead of a general triage doing it twice.
Which deadline applies?
The deadline depends on the practice and the jurisdiction, not on this pillar page. Some deadlines run from the moment you learn of an infringement, others from a filing or renewal date. The practice page you land on states the applicable deadline and the forum that enforces it.
What do you need from us to start?
Send the document at the centre of the question — a contract, a registration, a cease-and-desist letter or a filing draft — and name the jurisdiction. Tell us if a deadline is already running. A partner confirms scope within minutes during business hours.