“Yossi Sivan & Co. is active in significant trade mark litigation …‘highly specialized in acting for international brands’…”
“Yossi Sivan & Co founder and pioneer Yossi Sivan is an electronics and luxury fashion ace who has carved his own path through the top echelon of Israeli intellectual property”.
Meet Yossi Sivan, Founder of the Yossi Sivan Law Firm
Welcome to the Yossi Sivan Law Firm. In this world of swift technological developments and legal changes, it is very important to hire the services of first-class professionals to watch and protect your Intellectual Property assets. We at Yossi Sivan & Co. are fully committed to providing quality service to our clients. With a vast experience in IP matters we have the expertise to professionally address all of your intellectual property needs and provide you with excellent legal services. Our Firm provides you with the personalized legal services required to establish and protect your valuable brands.
Yossi Sivan is considered to be an expert in trademark matters, ranked by top international ranking companies, Legal 500 and World Trademark Review. Our firm’s services include trademark registration, national filings, trademark renewals, responding trademark refusals, conducting trademark searches, trademark clearance, managing trademark oppositions and trademark enforcement in Israel.
Our firm is highly experienced in overcoming WIPO trademark refusals. We hold a record of around 95% successe rate in overcoming trademark refusals. There are basically several kinds of refusals issued by the Israeli Trademark Office: relative refusals, absolute refusals and technical refusals. We are creative, meticulous and persistent for our clients. We maintain a highly professional standards in every case we manage. Contact us and let’s start working.
In Israel we have a very advanced trademark filing system operated by the Israeli Trademark Office, which enables us to file your trademark in less than 24 hours and get a filing number in no later than 48 hours from the date of filing. We are fully organized to file applications, office action responses and renewals via the online Israeli Trademark System quickly and efficiently.
In Israel, a multi-class registration has been implemented into Israeli law, so that every application can be filed in several classes. On average, trademark registration takes approximately 4 months for the examination to commence, and then around 11 month until the process is finished. There is also a possibility of accelerating the examination process in a fast track examination process, by filing for a special motion and by paying additional fees. In a fast track examination process your application should be examined more speedily within about 1-2 months. This could be a great advantage for an applicant who has competitors in the Israeli market that are trying to cause harm to their reputation. Once the trademark has been approved it will be published for oppositions for a period of 3 months. If no oppositions are filed, a certificate of registration will be issued to the applicant. The Applicant can then enforce the registration immediately against any possible infringements.
In order to file a trademark application we will need the applicant’s full details, the word mark or the logo file (for a design/logo mark, the mark must be filed as an JPEG file), the specific class(es) in which registration is to be filed for in English (Nice Trademark Classification), a detailed list of goods or services. If priority is claimed, we need the details of the priority application. (A certified Translation is required in a later stage). We also need A signed power of attorney (can be also submitted in a later stage, there is no need for legalization or notarization).