Shalev, Jencmen & Co

Shalev, Jencmen & Co. is one of the leading intellectual property law firms in Israel, led by its founders Adv and patent agent (US) Avi Jencmen and Adv and patent attorney Asaf Shalev. Both Avi and Asaf are highly regarded professionals having extensive experience in both the intellectual property field and the high-tech industry, alongside scientific and legal degrees.

The firm provides extensive legal services covering all aspects of intellectual property with an emphasis on patents, using comprehensive knowledge in various high-tech areas, including software and hardware, cyber, AI, internet, fintech, biotech, medical devices, communications and more.

The firm provides patent, trademarks and industrial design services from the initial stage of feasibility testing, through the collection and consolidation of information, and ending with the process of registering patents, trademarks and industrial designs in Israel and worldwide.

The firm’s professionals have extensive experience in creating a full intellectual property strategy for building a professional and valuable patent portfolio for the firm’s clients, while providing each client with personal attention and full availability.

Patent strategy: The firm’s professionals specialize in building a strategic plan by mapping the company’s innovation and identifying candidates for patent protection. Based on the strategic plan, the client receives actionable recommendations that account for the client’s goals and business needs.

Patent prosecution process: The patent attorneys in our firm all have rich backgrounds in technology and practical industry experience, and are able to quickly extract relevant information from inventors, draft patent applications that provide a broad scope of protection, and accompany the examination process of the applications in synchronicity between all territories in which the applications are filed, until registration.

Prior art search: Using advanced data mining systems, our patent attorneys conduct prior art searches, and provide clients with detailed search reports, including an initial analysis of search results.

Due diligence: Our extensive expertise and experience in the field of patents enables us to provide professional and extensive due diligence services, including an in-depth analysis of patent portfolios in preparation for investment agreements, acquisitions, mergers and other business activities.

Intellectual property commercialization: Companies often spend money on patent protection, yet do not generate revenue from their patents. In some cases, revenues can be generated from patents – by selling them or by selling licenses to use them. Our firm helps companies explore these opportunities and realize the business potential behind patents.

Open source: Open source licenses require both legal and technical understanding – an ability to analyze legal texts of the various licenses as well as technological understanding of different types of technical implementations. The firm’s lawyers and patent attorneys have extensive experience in analyzing the various implementations and providing professional opinions on open source usage.

Trademarks: The Trademark Department deals with various aspects of brand protection, trademark strategy and prosecution, for both local and international clients. The department's lawyers offer strategic and legal counseling regarding brand protection, trademark selection, trademark registration, and proper use of trademarks in Israel and worldwide.

In addition, we advise on planning, building, and managing trademark portfolios for international and local clients, we conduct and analyse trademark clearance searches in Israel and worldwide before filing, draft and prosecute trademark applications and provide vlegal assistance in trademark registration with the Israeli Trademark Office, WIPO (International registrations) and in various national and regional trademark registries worldwide (through local associates), and monitor and file trademark renewals and declarations of use in countries that so require.

Our experienced lawyers also provide strategic and legal counseling on brand-related transactions and drafting trademark-related agreements, including license agreements, co-existence agreements, and prior-rights agreements, as well as trademark watches for confusingly similar trademarks.

Industrial design: An industrial design provides protection over the external appearance of a product or part thereof (noting that a product can also be an electronic user interface). The external appearance of a product can be manifested by its shape, its color or the material the product is made of. An owner of a registered industrial design has the right to prevent third parties from manufacturing, selling or importing products that are copies of the protected industrial design, or that are substantially similar to the protected industrial design. The firm’s team has extensive experience in registering industrial designs in Israel and abroad, as well as providing strategic consultation services which take into account the clients’ business needs.

In addition, the firm offers preliminary search and due-diligence services and provides assistance in determining the likelihood and the profitability of registering the industrial design, on top of providing legal opinions and drafting agreements relating to industrial designs.