According to EU law and the National Law of most of the Countries globally, the owner is responsible to monitor and enforce their registered trade mark rights on his own, as EUIPO and most of the National Trade Mark Offices don’t examine anymore if the filed trademark is the same or similar to previous registered trademarks and if there is a likelihood of confusion.

The examiners are no longer authorized to reject a trademark that is the same or similar to your registered trademark.

The so-called "likelihood of confusion" can be examined only upon your request, with an opposition prosses.

ONLY YOU can stop the application of someone who wants to register a trademark similar to yours!

Loukis Stefanos is an accredited Mediator of the Greek Ministry of Justice and the ADR Center of Rome, as well as a business consultant and entrepreneur. He is also the Founder of “Trademark Superhero”.

After having completed his Bachelor Studies in Business Administration at the University of Piraeus, he obtained a MSc in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a second MSc in e-Governance, both from the Aegean University. He has been trained at Prometheus Athens Mediation Training Institute, having also completed an additional training course at Caruso School of Law of the University of Pepperdine in California (USA). He also holds the Certificate in Maritime Disputes & Arbitration of Lloyd’s Maritime Academy and he has attended plenty of seminars on various Mediation topics.

At the same time, he is the Founder and CEO of “SLBL Business Consultants”, a business consulting enterprise with a clientele of over 400 enterprises, most of which are Start-ups. He has participated in incubators and has initiated plenty of projects as an entrepreneur himself, most of which are still on.

His expertise and experience both in Mediation and Business render Stefanos your ideal teammate.

Lawyer and Translator, a graduate of the Law School of Athens, and a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2014. She holds an LLM in Commercial Law from the same University. She has dealt in international and maritime law cases, business law, and public procurement law cases and has had extensive experience in legal counseling in intellectual property law as well as in supporting businesses on personal data protection issues and translating legal texts. She has participated in numerous seminars and workshops in Greece and abroad on law, translation, and international relations. She speaks English, and German and she loves words, traveling, and theatre.

Maria is a Trainee Lawyer, candidate at the LL.M program "International & European Legal Studies: Private Law and Business Transactions". She has graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens with a Bachelor of Laws degree and has also studied at the Law School of the University of Limoges in France. She has successfully completed the program "European Business Law: Competing in Europe" by Lund University. Maria specializes in Business Law i.e. intellectual property law, e-commerce law and competition law.