Monitoring / Investigations

Monitoring and Investigations: Protect Your Intellectual Property Rights and Combat Infringements

Are you concerned about the actual protection of your innovations and creations? PADIMA goes beyond traditional legal advice. Through our Monitoring and Investigation services, we become your eyes and ears in the market, identifying and documenting any threats to your intellectual property rights.

Monitoring and Investigations: Strategic Intelligence to Defend your IP

What do IP Monitoring and Investigations involve?

Our IP Monitoring and Investigation services include searching, gathering, and analysing information to detect, prove, and evaluate possible IP rights infringements, as well as activities related to unfair competition or counterfeiting. We provide strategic intelligence that empowers you to act quickly and effectively to defend your intangible assets.

Types of IP Monitoring and Investigation:

We offer a wide range of IP Monitoring and Investigation services, tailored to your specific needs:

• Online Trade mark Monitoring: monitoring of the internet and social media to detect unauthorised use of your trade marks, sale of counterfeit products and other online infringements with a view to removing illegal content.
• Market and Distribution Channel Investigations: investigation into the distribution of counterfeit or infringing products in physical and online markets.
• Test Purchases and Analysis of Suspicious Products: acquisition and analysis of suspicious products to confirm their authenticity or counterfeit and obtain evidence of potential infringements.
• Origin and Supply Chain Investigations: investigation to identify the origin of infringing products and dismantle counterfeiting networks.
• Patent and Design Monitoring: monitoring of competitor and market activity to detect possible patent and design infringements.
• Unfair Competition Investigations: collecting evidence of unfair competition, such as misleading advertising, denigration or confusion.
• Pre-Litigation and Due Diligence Investigations: investigations before legal action to gather evidence and assess claim viability, as well as performing due diligence investigations in corporate transactions.

Specialised Monitoring and Investigation Services:

• Customised monitoring strategy design: defining monitoring plans tailored to your specific IP rights, markets and risks.
• Online and offline monitoring implementation: using advanced tools and methodologies for surveillance on the internet, physical markets and distribution channels.
• Covert investigations and test purchases: conducting discreet investigations and test purchases to obtain solid evidence of infringement.
• Information analysis and reporting: analysing the information obtained and providing you with detailed reports containing conclusions and recommendations.
• Strategic advice for decision-making: advising you on the best legal and extrajudicial strategies to follow based on the results of monitoring and investigations.
• Coordination with authorities and law enforcement agencies: collaborating with authorities and law enforcement agencies in the fight against counterfeiting and other IP crimes.
• Training in IP infringement detection for your team: training your staff to identify counterfeit products and possible infringements of your rights.

Who is this service for?

• Owners of trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights.
• Companies affected by counterfeiting and piracy.
• Companies seeking to protect their reputation.
• Companies that need information to make strategic IP decisions.
• Anti-counterfeiting associations and organisations.

Do not leave the protection of your intellectual property to chance. Make informed decisions based on real and accurate information about what is happening in the online and offline world. Contact PADIMA and ask for a free consultation about our Monitoring and Investigation services. Start protecting your future with our strategic IP intelligence services.