Career
Karen Elburgs heads the firm's Intellectual Property Practice. Karen has extensive experience in the contentious and non-contentious aspects of intellectual property, including advising on strategic and day-to-day aspects of trademark portfolios and the trademark/domain-name interface, and managing world-wide trademark portfolios for her clients.
Karen advises on the acquisition, disposal, protection and exploitation of IP rights, as well as trademark clearance, all aspects of brand protection and trademark & domain-name disputes, with a unique specialty in IP issues in the online gaming industry. Karen specialises in negotiating and drafting all types of IP transactions (including patent licensing), with extensive experience in the IP aspects of corporate and commercial transactions. Her work focuses on transactional IP and on licensing, development, technology transfer and other commercial agreements for clients ranging from start-ups to multi-national corporations, in a broad range of industries and fields.
Consistently recognised for her excellence as an IP practitioner, these are Karen’s latest rankings: • Client Choice Awards 2019 | Intellectual Property: Trademarks (Israel) • WTR 1000 2019 | Prosecution and Strategy (Israel) • WIPR Leader 2019 | World IP Leader (Israel) • IAM Patent 1000 2018 | Highly Recommended - IP Transactions (Israel) • Chambers & Partners 2018 | Intellectual Property (Israel)