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Dr Nikolaos Lyberis
Professional Biography
Dr Nikolaos Lyberis is an attorney admitted to the Athens Bar Association (1984). He is the Managing Partner of VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS Law Firm, specializing in Intellectual Property Law in Greece, Cyprus, and worldwide. He is a litigator before the Supreme Courts for civil and administrative matters, representing prestigious clients in trademark, patent, and other IP rights conflicts from all branches of industry and commerce.
Nikolaos is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Law School of the European University Cyprus (EUC), lecturing on Greek and Cypriot Intellectual Property Law and Trust Law. He holds a PhD in European economic and banking law from the Law School of Hamburg University and has served as legal advisor (Referent) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law in Hamburg for 11 years, delivering legal advice to inquiring German courts.
Nikolaos was selected in 2020 as an ordinary member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Industrial Property Academy, an institution operating within the framework of the Greek Patent Office, responsible for the education and training of IP counsels, thus fostering innovation and patent protection in Greece. In 2014–2015, he was appointed as an ordinary member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Patent Office (OBI). In the years 2005–2010, Nikolaos worked as an active member of the Legislative Committee of the Ministry of Development and Investments for drafting the Greek Trademarks Law 4072/2012 and Law 4155/2013, for the implementation of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Directive EC 48/2004 in the Greek legal order.
Nikolaos is a member of numerous Greek and international associations focusing on IP law and related legal fields. He is the author of various contributions, inter alia, on aspects of European Trademarks Law, Unfair Competition, Patent, and Design Law. He has conducted IP seminars for the postgraduate program of the Medical School of Athens University, educational programs for Examiners of the Greek Trademarks Office, and other entities.
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About Vayanos Kostopoulos Law Firm
With more than 120 years of IP-focused legal experience, VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS is the oldest and one of the leading IP law firms in Greece. Our philosophy is dedication and commitment to the client-tailored needs of businesses coming from all branches of industry and services. Our clients and foreign associates enjoy state-of-the-art legal advice services in a timely and precise manner. Our clientele encompasses enterprises from multi-nationals to local businesses, including individual inventors, creators, designers, authors, and other IP holders.
As of 1993, VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS is headed by Dr. Nikolaos Lyberis, Managing Partner, Attorney, as well as Patent and Trademark Attorney. He belongs to the fourth generation of lawyers in the same family running the Firm. Soon after becoming the Managing Director, he introduced the name VAYANOS & KOSTOPOULOS, which later changed to VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS, thus maintaining the surnames of the previous two Office Heads. This decision symbolizes continuity with dynamic development, as well as respect for long-lasting professional principles.
Modernizing the organizational model of our offices and their three (3) departments (trademarks, patents, litigation), VAYANOS KOSTOPOULOS was transformed into a Law Firm in 2010.
Why Choose Vayanos Kostopoulos Law Firm?
In an intensively globalized economy, creation, protection, and enforcement of innovation is based on key factors, such as applied expertise, profound analysis of the client’s business interests, state-of-the-art knowledge of domestic, European, and international legal and procedural frameworks, and support by customized IT tools. If you need an expert to advise and implement the appropriate IP strategy for your business, you are in the right law firm.
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