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How can we assist?

We provide legal advice on intellectual property matters relating mainly to registration, maintenance and protection strategy.
  • Poradenství

    Advice on intellectual property matters

    We assist in negotiations and help you in drafting contract documentation or other legal documents related to particular IP rights and other legal documents.

  • Vymáhání práv

    IP rights enforcement and litigation

    We represent our clients in disputes and ADR procedures relating to IP rights and unfair competition or in customs proceedings mainly in counterfeiting issues.

  • Patenty

    Patents and designs

    We arrange for protection of inventions in the form of granted patents and designs covering all industrial sectors both in CZ and abroad. We process international patent applications.

  • Ochranné známky

    Trademarks

    We provide for trademark rights protection including protection of slogans or claims both in CZ and abroad. Our services comprise searches and assessment of registration possibilities.

  • Monitoring

    Trademark monitoring

    We perform monitoring of trademarks to ensure timely filing oppositions against registration of identical or confusingly similar trademarks.

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We have assisted clients in 50 countries all over the world.

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A team of experienced lawyers and patent attorneys has been protecting our clients’ ideas since 1990.

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We cooperate with law and patent offices from most countries around Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia.

We are members of both national and international professional associations.

We specialize in protecting
intellectual property.

  • Trademarks

    • Performing database searches before filing trademark applications to detect identical or confusingly similar designations in trademark databases.
    • Consultations and opinions regarding registration eligibility of trademarks.
    • Legal services in trademark registration proceedings before the Czech Intellectual Property Office (ÚPV CR).
    • Legal services in international trademark registration proceedings, handling temporary suspension of validity in the CR and abroad, representation of clients before the World Intellectual Property Organization.
    • Legal services in trademark registration proceedings in the EU, representation of clients before EUIPO.
    • Representing clients in disputes before the Czech Intellectual Property Office (opposition proceedings, revocation proceedings and proceedings to declare a trademark invalid), including administrative actions against decisions of the Czech Intellectual Property Office.
    • Representing clients in disputes before the EUIPO (opposition proceedings, revocation proceedings and proceedings to declare a trademark invalid).
    • Trademark monitoring to ensure timely filing of notices of opposition against registration of identical or confusingly similar trademarks.
    • Drafting contract documentation (e.g. licence agreements, coexistence agreements or settlement agreements) and other relevant legal documents.
    • Representation of clients in court proceedings as well as ADR procedures.

  • Patents and designs

    • Protection in the Czech Republic – national patent applications.
    • Arranging foreign patent applications – national applications in respective countries, including USA, international patent applications (PCT applications, European patent applications, representation before WIPO and EPO).
    • Supplementary Protection Certificates
    • Arranging validation of European patents.
    • Services covering patent database searches, research of professional literature and online sources, monitoring patents and providing services aimed at protecting original products from passing off and counterfeiting.
    • Services related to annuity payments for patents / European patents, filing applications to extend the terms of utility designs.
    • Representation in proceedings to revoke a patent, to determine a claim and in patent-related disputes in court, negotiations on alternative dispute resolution.
    • Drafting contract documentation (e.g. licence agreements, coexistence agreements, or settlement agreements) and other legal documents.

  • Industrial designs

    • Legal services in industrial design registration proceedings in the Czech Republic.
    • Filing industrial design applications abroad (Registered Community Design – provides protection throughout the EU, national applications of industrial designs in individual countries including the USA or China, international industrial design).
    • Search of industrial design databases or other online sources, where appropriate, to confirm if the design meets the criteria of novelty and individuality.
    • Services related to renewal of industrial designs and payment of annuities.
    • Representation on proceedings to revoke an industrial design.
    • Searching and monitoring industrial designs.
    • Representation in industrial design-related disputes in court, negotiations on alternative dispute resolution.
    • Drafting contract documentation (e.g. licence agreements, coexistence agreements, or settlement agreements) and other legal documents.

  • Copyright

    • Representation in copyright disputes – representation of authors in both court and ADR proceedings in connection with their rights under copyright regulations.
    • Drafting contract documentation (e.g. licence agreements, coexistence agreements, or settlement agreements) and other legal documents.

  • Intellectual property rights enforcement

    • Representation of clients in disputes on infringement of trademark rights, patents, utility and industrial designs, unregistered designations and/or business names.
    • Representing clients in counterfeiting matters – drafting expert statements and opinions on detained goods, preparation of customs measures intended to protect industrial rights, litigating in order to determine infringement of intellectual property rights and other acts as part of the customs procedure, including representation of the injured party in criminal proceedings.
    • Representing clients in unfair competition disputes (defence against deceptive advertising and misleading of consumers, defence against unfair and deceptive business practices, defence against counterfeits, passing off and freeloading on brands or products)
    • Legal assistance in domain-related disputes.

  • Evaluation of intangible assets and intellectual property by a certified expert

Our Team

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Jana Traplová

The primary focus of Jana’s legal practice lies in intellectual property rights protection. Jana and her team are the perfect choice for handling your ideas and protecting them both in or outside the Czech Republic. In 2023, Jana was ranked by Euro magazine among the Top 100 women of Czech legal business.
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Meet the whole team.

  • Ing. et Ing. Tomáš Růžička

    CEO / Executive Director

  • JUDr. Vojtěch Trapl

    Attorney-at-Law

  • JUDr. Vladislava Růžičková

    Attorney-at-Law

  • Zuzana Bartošovičová, LL.M.

    Trademark Attorney

  • doc. JUDr. et PhDr. Jan Štemberk CSc.

    Senior Counsel

  • Ing. Jaroslav Veřmiřovský

    European Patent Attorney

  • Ing. Tomáš Veřmiřovský

    European Patent Attorney

  • Mgr. Radomír Nahodil

    Patent attorney

  • Ing. Jan Vonka

    Patent attorney

  • Monika Blümelová

    Trademark Specialist

  • Irena Říhová

    Senior Trademark and Patent Specialist

  • Mgr. Alice Nejedlá

    Patent and Validation Specialist

  • Mgr. Anna Nováková

    Patent and Validation Specialist

  • Gabriela Sekeráková

    Office Manager

  • Tereza Verthaimová

    Accountant

  • Věra Rumpálová

    Accountant

  • RNDr. Miloš Štípl

    IT Development

  • Kateřina Kabelová

    Intern

Milestones in the History

  • 1) Historical Roots and IP Protection Before 1989

    • Prior to 1989, there were no private law firms in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and advocacy was carried out through state law offices.
    • The historical roots of the law and patent office (today THK Legal s.r.o.) date back to 1979, since when the attorney, JUDr. Jarmila Traplová, specialized in the field of international intellectual property protection for both foreign and Czech clients at Law Office No. 10 in Prague. Her achievements and legacy are now successfully continued by her daughter, Mgr. Jana Traplová, attorney at law, owner of THK Legal s.r.o.

  • 2) The "Velvet Revolution" and Changes in IP Protection

    • The "Velvet Revolution" in November 1989 brought political changes, the fall of communism, the disappearance of state law firms and the launch of private, independent law firms.

  • 3) JUDr. J. Traplová, Law Office, Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Licenses

    • Jarmila Traplová, JUDr., founded in 1990 an independent law firm with the name JUDr. J. Traplová, Law Office, Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Licenses.
    • JUDr. Traplová began to write the history of a successful law and patent office, which took over the protection of intellectual property registered in the Czechoslovak Republic since 1930 and started cooperation with a number of major international companies.

  • 4) JUDr. J. TRAPLOVÁ AND PARTNERS, ATTORNEY AND PATENT OFFICE

    • In 1992, JUDr. Traplová began to cooperate with her previous employees - patent attorneys Ing. Jan Kubát and Ing. Eduard Hakr, within the association called JUDr. J. TRAPLOVÁ AND PARTNERS, ATTORNEY AND PATENT OFFICE.

  • 5) TRAPLOVÁ HAKR KUBÁT law and patent office

    • In the second half of the 1990s, the TRAPLOVÁ HAKR KUBÁT law and patent office began to be used for the association.

  • 6) Mgr. Jana Traplová Joins the Legal and Patent Offices

    • In September 2007, her daughter, Jana Traplová, began working as a law clerk for her mother, JUDr. Jarmila Traplová. Jana Traplová began to work mainly in the area of anti-counterfeiting - an important agenda that became crucially important 8 years after the "Velvet Revolution" in the Czech Republic.
    • In 2011 Mgr. Jana Traplová successfully passed the bar exam and became a cooperating attorney of JUDr. Jarmila Traplová.

  • 7) Mgr. Jana Traplová takes over the legal practice († JUDr. Jarmila Traplová)

    • JUDr. Jarmila Traplová died in December 2012.
    • Mgr. Jana Traplová continued her mother's previous practice as an independent lawyer and from 1 January 2013 she cooperated with Ing. Kubát and Ing. Hakr.

  • 8) Changes Following the Passing of Partners († Ing. Eduard Hakr, † Ing. Jan Kubát)

    • On 23 April 2021, Ing. Eduard Hakr and the association ceased to exist.
    • From 1 May 2021 to 31 December 2021, only Mgr. Jana Traplová, attorney at law and Ing. Jan Kubát, independent patent attorney hereinafter under the name TRAPLOVÁ HAKR KUBÁT Advokátní a patentová kancelář.
    • From 1 January 2022 to 3 December 2022, Mgr. Jana Traplová in association with Ing. Jan Kubát, Ing. Tomáš Pavlica and Ing. Ivana Beranova and used the name TRAPLOVÁ HAKR KUBÁT Advokátní a patentová kancelář for their business. This company was dissolved by the death of Ing. Kubát, who died on 3 December 2022, at the age of 89.

  • 9) THK Legal s.r.o.

    • At the end of 2022, THK Legal s.r.o. was established, whose CEO is Mgr. Jana Traplová is the sole shareholder and managing director.
    • As of 1 January 2023, Mgr. Jana Traplová and her team will continue their current activity - providing comprehensive legal services in the field of intellectual property protection.

  • 10) Mgr. Jana Traplová – European Established Lawyer in Slovakia

    • In December 2023, the Slovak Bar Association registered Mgr. Jana Traplová on the list of attorneys of the Slovak Republic as a European established lawyer.
    • Providing comprehensive legal services in the field of intellectual property protection in Slovakia thus becomes even simpler and more accessible for clients.

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