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Intellectual Property

Overview

At DABLO Law Firm, we help clients protect and commercialize their most valuable intangible assets—innovation, brand, and technology. Our Intellectual Property (IP)practice covers patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and digital products, offering end-to-end legal solutions from registration to enforcement.

We go beyond filings, providing strategic advice on IP protection, licensing, and commercial exploitation. Whether securing patents, defending brands, or navigating copyright disputes, we help clients maximise value and minimise risk.

As digital transformation accelerates, we support clients with data governance, tech product compliance, and cross-border technology transfer agreements. Our expertise bridges local IP regulations with global best practices.

We also advise on IP structuring, licensing, and tax efficiency, helping multinationals align with Ethiopian tax law while avoiding exposure to transfer pricing and royalty disputes.

From startups to global enterprises, our tailored strategies help turn innovation into competitive advantage—protecting creativity, supporting growth, and enabling success.

Work Highlights

  • Negotiated and executed trademark assignments for a global manufacturer, resolving a backlog a multi-million-dollar trademark issue by securing key IP rights and brand protection.
  • Managed the compliance and enforceability review of a product license registration contract agreement to be executed with a local company for a Turkish-based industrial firm
  • Successfully appealed and registered Industrial Designs of a manufacturing company that were previously denied registration by the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Authority.
  • Advised foreign pharma-Sector clients on trade secret protection and Infringement countermeasures according to Ethiopian Laws.
  • Conducted multiple trademark registration, renewal and portfolio management for both local and foreign trademarks in Ethiopia.

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