Аtanas Kostov

Intellectual property attorney, CEO and founder of IUSAUTHOR law office(Bulgaria)

Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

About

Patent and copyright attorney. Blockchain and internet law attorney. Intellectual property lecturer. Specialties: Intellectual property.

Experience

  • Iusauthor law office, Bulgaria (22 yrs 6 mos)
    • Attorney At Law
      Jan 2004 - Present · 22 yrs 6 mos

      Bulgarian trademark attorney Mr.Atanas Kostov studied law in Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski" and graduated in 1999 with Master degree. Intellectual property challenges him at the outset of his career. He is currently a consultant and author in the publishing house "Labour and Law". Mr.Kostov is a professional representative and patent attorney to the Patent Office of Bulgaria and EUIPO, Alicante, Spain in all industrial property objects: trademarks and industrial designs. At the end of 2005 Mr. Kostov was invited to the legislative task force committee of the National Assembly of Bulgaria under the guidance of Doctor of law, Mr. George Sarakinov in which they are made recent changes to the Law on Copyright and Related Rights. In November 2010 Mr. Atanas Kostov issued his first book "Assumptions in copyright.Theory and Practice", published by Publishing House "Feneya". The book is aimed at giving practical guidance and tips not only for practitioners but also to all artists from various artistic professions (musicians, photographers, actors, artists, architects, computer specialists, etc.) who wish to obtain a more complete notion of the means of protecting their copyrights. In May, 2011 Mr. Kostov publishing by "Ciela" his second book named "Opposition oftrademark." The book "Opposition of trademark" examines the new procedure for refusal on relative grounds, in force with the recent amendments to the Trademark Law (Law on Marks and Geographical Indications) from 10.03.2011. The book will be practically useful for wide range of lawyers, experts, working at the Patent Office, representatives of industrial property, commercial operators, students and citizens. In 2012. Mr. Kostov publishing his third book named "Intellectual property in Internet". The book tries to make a comment and at the same time offer proposed solutions to deal with problems related to copyrights, trademarks, domain names and other business identifiers used in the network.

    • CEO
      Apr 2004 - Present · 22 yrs 3 mos

    • CEO
      Dec 2004 - Present · 21 yrs 7 mos

  • Commercial lawyer at Dukov law office
    Mar 2000 - Jan 2004 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Commercial law attorney