Intellectual Property

Our team of experts combines profound industry knowledge with comprehensive legal understanding to assist clients in a range of trademark, patent, industrial design, and copyright matters.

We Can Handle All Your Intellectual Property Needs

We offer our clients a full range of Intellectual Property services, including processing applications for trademark, patent, copyright and design protection, conducting prior art searches, acting in IP litigation, drafting and negotiating IP contracts, and providing consultation spanning across Libyan aspects of intellectual property laws and regulations.

Trademark

A trademark is any recognisable sign, expression or design (including particular words, shapes, drawings, symbols or groups of colours) which distinguishes products or services of a specific source from others. Trademarks used to identify services are often called service marks.

Patent

A patent grants to its owner an exclusive right to exploit, sell, and use an invention for a specific period. In Libya, patents are valid for 15 years from the date of filing the patent application, provided that payment of all prescribed annual fees is kept current.

Copyright

A copyright is the exclusive legal right to print, publish, reproduce, distribute, sell, film or perform original material such as a literary, musical or any artistic work for a given period.

Addons Services

The addons are other services related to TradeMark, Patents and Copyright and it includes Changes of Names & Addresses, Assignments, and Licensing.

Libyan Laws

The Libyan laws about intellectual property include the following:

Commercial Law No. 23 (2010)
Law No. 9 (1968) on Copyrights
Law No. 76 (1972) on Publications
Law No. 7 of (1984) on the Deposit of Works
Prepared for Publication
Law No. 8 of (1959) on Patents and Industrial
Designs
Libyan Penal Code (1954)
Law No. 10 (2010) on Customs
Law No. 9 of (2010) on Promoting investment

International Law

The international treaties and conventions relevant to the intellectual property include the following:

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Paris Convention on Industrial Property.
Berne Convention on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Work.
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).