Dr. Zoltán Puskás
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The main profile of our law firm is business law, including intellectual property law. This profile has evolved because we primarily provide day-to-day legal advice to companies in the IT, Telecommunications and Media sectors, which in addition to drafting and advising on legal matters included litigation and non-litigation, arbitration, trademark registration, company formations, M&A transactions, and criminal representation. For more than 16 years, we have successfully provided comprehensive general legal services to media and IT companies with subsidiaries in other European countries (mainly Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia), so our experience covers both foreign and domestic matters.

Our extensive professional contacts allow us to cooperate with other law firms, tax advisors, auditors and other experts, so that we can support our clients in complex and larger assignments.

In all cases, we carry out our clients' assignments responsibly and with a view to achieving our clients' objectives. It is important to us to be proactive and to always respond to our clients' questions in a timely manner and to the highest professional standards. We are happy to take on complex and challenging cases, and we always develop cost-effective, practical and pragmatic solutions.

Dr. Zoltán Puskás

He is a lawyer with more than 20 years of professional experience and extensive legal knowledge in all areas of intellectual property law, as well as in legal issues affecting companies operating in the IT, Telecom and Media sectors. He primarily provides services to his Hungarian and foreign clients in copyright, corporate, competition, employment, media, e-commerce and IP law matters.

Prior to founding his law firm, he worked in international law firms and corporations and headed the legal department of IKO MEDIA GROUP for 14 years.

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Intellectual property rights protection
Intellectual property rights protection

The main profile of our law firm is the legal protection of intellectual property, so we support our clients in all matters in this area from a legal perspective. Such matters may include drafting general contractual terms and conditions for the legal protection of the content and image of a newly launched website, taking action against infringements on social networking sites (Facebook, Instagram), drafting contracts for the use of software or other intellectual property, drafting contracts for the distribution of a television programme, initiating legal proceedings against trademark infringers, copyright infringers, database misusers or providing legal representation for the registration of trademarks.

Having represented our clients in a number of successful intellectual property cases, we are familiar with the relevant case law and use our expertise not only in litigation but also in contracts that require the exploitation of our clients' intellectual property.

We also assist our clients in their decisions on legal issues relating to the protection of intellectual property in the form of oral consultations or written legal opinions.

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Company law
Company law

We assist in all matters relating to the operation of a company or a change in the shareholding of a company. Our law firm has acted as legal representatives for small and large companies in all matters and areas that may arise in the past 16 years, from company formations, company changes, mergers and acquisitions, liquidation proceedings, bankruptcy and liquidation.

We have been involved in the preparation and execution of a number of high-value, complex and often cross-border transactions, including legal due diligence, transaction structuring and drafting of the necessary documents in Hungarian and English. As a result of numerous successful transactions, we have developed a cooperation with other law firms, valuation experts and tax advisors, which enables us to support our clients in any transaction in a professional and efficient manner.

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Compliance and data protection
Compliance and data protection

We provide legal support to our corporate clients in all matters necessary to comply with the law in the course of their business. These may include, in particular, compliance with labour law, employment law, consumer protection, competition law or legislation to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

As the main profile of our law firm is to support companies operating in the IT, Telecom and Media sectors, we also assist our clients in the areas of media compliance and data protection. In the field of data protection, we undertake due diligence of our clients' data processing activities and, on the basis of this, draft the relevant data management register, privacy notification, data processing contracts, joint data management agreements or privacy policies.

As a whistleblower protection law office, we assist in the establishment and operation of a mandatory internal whistleblowing system for employers with at least 50 employees.

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Contract drafting
Contract drafting

We have extensive experience in drafting and negotiating contracts for the exploitation of intellectual property. Such contracts may include, in particular, copyright exploitation contracts, contracts relating to the distribution of television channels, general terms and conditions for websites, trademark contracts, cooperation contracts, franchise contracts, merchandising contracts.

In addition to the above, we draft and, if necessary, assist in the negotiation of employment contracts, contracts of agency, contracts of engagement, contracts of subcontracting, rental contracts, advertising contracts, agency contracts and other contracts and declarations of rights necessary for the day-to-day operation of companies.

We also assist our clients in drafting complex, atypical contracts (such as those related to cooperation contracts, technical or technical services or payment card acceptance contracts).

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Dispute resolution / Litigation
Dispute resolution / Litigation

We have represented clients in a number of successful intellectual property litigation cases, which is the main focus of our law firm. Our litigation practice includes cases involving infringement of character, trademark infringement, copyright (with a particular focus on database rights) and tort law. We are also experienced in providing legal representation in international arbitration (ICC) proceedings. In these matters, we have extensive experience of the relevant court practice and work in collaboration with eminent practitioners to support our clients' interests and achieve their goals.

In connection with the enforcement of our clients' financial claims, we undertake legal representation in connection with the initiation of payment order proceedings and winding-up proceedings.

In addition to the above, our litigation practice also includes legal representation in connection with challenges to administrative decisions (primarily in the fields of trademark, data protection and media law).

If our clients' intellectual property is infringed in a way that also violates criminal law, we undertake the drafting of a complaint and the legal representation of the victim before the authorities and the courts.

Our Office's
Thoughts
about Law

In our blog, we publish from time to time articles written by our law firm, reflections on the field of law in which our law firm is active, as well as articles or events written by others.

Practical issues of a whistleblowing system set up by an employer

In this article, we review and answer practical questions about the internal whistleblowing system for employers.

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Review of recent court practice in e-commerce trademark infringement cases

A summary of the practical findings of three trademark infringement cases.

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