Maria Silvia is a patent attorney in the field of trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications. She specializes in intellectual property protection in Estonia and the European Union. Maria Silvia has considerable experience in intellectual property strategy development and execution for both local and international clients. She has successfully represented clients in the Estonian Patent Office, European Union Intellectual Property Office and various dispute settlement bodies (including boards of appeal, courts).In addition to the above, Maria Silvia is a lecturer of the intellectual property protection course in the Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences, and an additional member of the Estonian Patent Office’s Industrial Property Board of Appeals where she decides disputes concerning industrial property registrations.
Maria Silvia is a member of the TRINITI General Advice team and a member of the IP-IT practice group. Maria Silvia’s clients highly value her thoroughness and strategic, business-oriented approach to legal advice.
Her experiences include:
defending the trademark rights of an international telecommunications company in the Industrial Property Board of Appeals (2023);
developing and executing the intellectual property strategy of a local beauty care company in Estonia and abroad (2023);
representing a local company in the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Cancellation Division and Boards of Appeal (2023);
establishing acquired distinctiveness in the Estonian Patent Office of a cosmetics luxury brand (2022);
conducting registrability analyses and searches in Estonia, the EU and the US for a local technology company (2020);
defending the trademark rights of the world’s leading e-commerce company in the Industrial Property Board of Appeals (2020);
representing a pharmaceutical company in negotiations and concluding a co-existence agreement (2020);
enforcing the rights of a luxury car manufacturer in a copyright infringement case (2019).
Nov 2023 – … Patent attorney, Law firm TRINITI
Feb 2021 – … Lecturer, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences / EEK Mainor
Nov 2019 – … Member of the Board of Appeals (BoA), Estonian Patent Office
Nov 2019 – Oct 2023 Patent attorney, Patent Agency RESTMARK
Feb 2015 – Nov 2019 Lawyer, patent attorney, Patent Agency RESTMARK
Oct 2014 – Feb 2015 – University of Tartu, Student assistant
June 2014 – TRINITI Estonia, Legal intern
Aug 2013 – SORAINEN, Legal intern
July 2012 – Estonian Lawyers Association, Trainee legal advisor
Education
2019 – Master’s Degree (LLM) in Intellectual Property Law, Uppsala University
2015 – Bachelor’s Degree in Law, University of Tartu
Professional memberships
2019 – … Chamber of Estonian Patent Attorneys 2019 – … AIPPI Estonia