Cikato Lawyers – Intellectual Property provides one of the most recognized IP Law practice group in Uruguay, which includes patent applications, prosecution and infringements issues in all fields of the industry, trademarks and domain names matters, anticounterfeiting actions, Internet and E-Commerce legal considerations, copyrights and related rights, software legal issues, licensing and technology transfer, IP due diligences, plant variety protection, biodiversity issues, entertainment law, music law, among other areas of the Intellectual Property Law and related rights.The vision of the Firm is to be one of the leading Law Firms in the region, counselling individuals and companies from all over the world in their businesses in the region, protecting their interests in a costly effective manner, with a personal and friendly client-staff relationship. We think ourselves as a family of good friends and honest relationship.The mission established since Dr. Manfredo A. Cikato`s founding of the Firm in 1962 continues its tradition of loyalty and confidence, working on an individual lawyer basis, backed-up by an efficient paralegal and administrative staff, with continued legal training, providing the best service we can afford to. Ethical considerations are the basis of our daily work and together with professionals with several studies on different topics and a state of the art technology, makes us one of the most confident and well respected Law Firm in the region.Contacts: Manfredo Cikato, Andrés Cikato, Diego Chijane, Carolina Cikato, Marcela Cikato, Mauro Marin, Martina Etcheverry, Belén Gauto (Lawyer from Paraguay) and Gustavo Larrosa.Specialties: Intellectual Property Law | Trademark Law | Copyright Law | Patent Law | Entertainment & Music Law | Internet & Social Media Law | Pharmaceutical Law | Unfair Competition & Anti-Counterfeiting | Searches, registration and prosecution of patents, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, plant varieties, assignments, changes of name, changes of address, recordation of licences and related rights | anti-counterfeiting actions | social media legal issues | rights of publicity