Protecting your Intellectual Property rights is key to any business and Mauritius is a signatory to and has ratified various key IP treaties. We have a dedicated IP team who assist in the registration and maintenance of intellection property rights including copyright, patents, tradename and trademark matters. When IP rights are being infringed our dispute resolution team together with our IP team join forces to investigate and take enforcement steps to protect the IP rights of our clients.

We regularly provide legal support on software, hardware or networking solutions developed for both private and public sector end users. Our lawyers have also advised the Mauritian government in the drafting of a set of key IP and IT pieces of legislation. We assist on IT transactions and assist both on the negotiations and documentations of end-user solutions while advising on the regulatory aspects of same.

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Recent Matters

• Advised Microsoft Corporation on the terms of release of their next Windows update as a matter of compliance with Mauritian law.Advised Microsoft Corporation on the terms of release of their next Windows update as a matter of compliance with Mauritian law.
• Acting for numerous multinational companies in respect of their IP registrations.
• Acting for multinational companies in respect of IP right enforcement in Mauritius.
• Acting for technology companies and BPO providers on their ongoing day to day matters.