Licensing in Albania
Our specialist team of licensing solicitors combines expertise in both licensing and regulation to ensure that you have the support you need. We offer a full range of licensing legal services ensuring that your business is running legally and safely. As a licensed premise you are regulated by not only the Licensing Authority but also other authorities in relation to health and safety, weights and measures, food safety, trading standards, disability discrimination and door security.
Working in conjunction with our regulatory investigations team, our specialist solicitors can advise on:
• premises licence applications
• variation applications
• designated premises supervisor variations
• personal licence applications
• objections and temporary events notice
• initial applications and transfers
• appeals and breach proceedings
• street trading and pavement licences
• summary reviews, interim steps applications and full reviews
• defending closure orders.
In general, three types of licence agreements can be distinguished:
• exclusive licence agreements – confers all the rights that subsist in the subject matter of the licence agreement to the licensee
• sole licence agreements – gives exclusivity in the sense that the licensor will not grant licences to any other party, but he or she will retain the right to use the subject matter of the licence agreement for itself.
• non-exclusive licence agreements – does not grant all the rights that subsist in the subject matter of the licence agreement to one particular licensee; the licensor may grant rights to several licensees.
The rules applicable to exclusive or sole licences may be different from the rules that apply to non-exclusive licences. For example, unlike a non-exclusive licensee, an exclusive or sole licensee of a patent has standing to sue for infringement and may grant sub-licences.
Any kind of intellectual property that allows its holder to exclude others from using the same, such as patents, utility models, copyright including copyright for software, industrial design, trademarks, topographies of semiconductor products, etc, can be the subject matter of a licence agreement. In addition, personality rights and confidential information (know-how, trade secrets) can also be the subject matter of a licence agreement.
