Mombasa Road Branch

This is a Sub-Firm offers strategic legal services and solutions in Intellectual Property to both local and international clients. These services involve the registration and protection of rights arising out of trademarks, patents, industrial designs including, copy rights and plant breeders’ rights.

This office also offers services in legal transactions arising from Commercial and Conveyance Law to individual and corporate clients based in the Industrial area region.

Members of Staff

The Branch has a Team Leader who is the Branch Managing Partner and a Project Manager. They are assisted by Associates who work in liaison with an administrative assistant and support staff.

Within Sichangi Partners Advocates, we believe in the power of the mind and the need to protect that which is created by the mind. For that reason, we have a specialized unit known as the Sichangi Intellectual Property Office (SINTEPO) that handles all intellectual property matters for and on behalf of the firm. SINTEPO is a specialized unit comprised of a team of experienced professionals, well versed in all matters of IP law.

Through SINTEPO, the firm helps in the protection of its client’s brand names, slogans, goodwill, inventions and other innovations. We also prepare transfer of technology agreements, licensing, franchising and parallel importation agreements. We advise our clients on all aspects of intellectual property. We ensure protection of our clients IP rights through registration, both locally and internationally under the PCT and ARIPO systems of registration. We also provide national protection in other countries worldwide through a network of associate agent law firms. Our services include, but are not limited to: - 

1. Registrations and infringement actions;
2. Advice on counterfeiting, due diligence, commercialization and exploitation of IP;
3. Negotiation and drafting of information technology agreements and enforcement actions relating to the Internet;
4. Licensing and franchise agreements, music and performers rights and strategic portfolio management;
5. Trademarks searches, registration, renewals, assignments, licenses, change of name and address;
6. Local opposition, expungement, infringement and passing off actions;
7. Patents Searches, filing and prosecution, change of ownership and annual maintenance across the world under the PCT, ARIPO and other registration regimes. Local revocation and infringement proceedings;
8. Copyright, trade mark oppositions, trade mark expungements, passing off and unlawful competition;
9. Domain name dispute resolution, registration and renewal of domain names and searches
10. Filing of patents and industrial designs, validity opinions and advice, patent and industrial design litigation, opposition and expungement actions;
11. Plant Breeder’s Rights: Registration and preservation of plant breeder’s rights;
12. IP based Agreements: Drafting and negotiating IP based agreements including but not limited to distribution, manufacturing, license, media, web, franchise, publishing, transfer of technology agreements, registered user and franchise agreements and assignments; and
13. We represent our clients in enforcement, opposition, revocation and infringement actions before the Industrial Property Tribunal, the High Court and in the Court of Appeal. 

Contacts

Service Operations Manager, Anne W. Munene.

Location: Gateway Business Park, Block B, 3rd floor