Judit Lantos

Judit Lantos’ area of expertise is the protection of IP. Judit has acquired knowledge and experience in advising on trademark law and registration; drafting contracts, licence- and co-operation agreements; international and national trademark portfolios; trademark searches, trademark infringement lawsuit, opposition and cancellation proceedings. She also deals with copyright law. Between 1998 and 2022, Judit has been leading partner and also a Managing Partner at leading Hungarian IP law firms. From October 1, 2022 Judit founded her own law firm Lantos Law. Judit is also advising clients in family law where can combine her legal knowledge with her mediation skills. She is also a coach and this also helps her to better understand the needs of her clients, to communicate with them and to advise them in family law. She is also a trainer. She is very active at ECTA (European Community Trademark Association) where she is the Chair of the Mediation Committee. She used to be the Chair of the WIPO-Link Committee of ECTA (2015-2018). In addition, she developed the idea of founding an Education Center at EUIPO (European Intellectual Property Office) for European trademark and design law. Based on her initial paper, EUIPO has created a propramme for European legal representatives and paralegals. /The EUIPO Trade Mark and Design Education Programme (ETMD EP) is an Education Programme within the EUIPO, whose objective is to increase the knowledge of the legal framework of European Union trade marks and Community designs, in particular proceedings and practices of the EUIPO within the community of practising intellectual property professionals./ Judit is member of the Advisory Committee of the above Education Programme at EUIPO on behalf of ECTA. Since 2019, Judit is also a mediator, registered at the Ministry of Justice and also at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office), and also a mediator at the Budapest Bar Association. She carried out mediation in several legal areas in the past years. She is devoted in trying to settle the disputes out of court and amicable in cases where possible. She wrote an article about mediation, negotiation and the responsibility of lawyers at a major Hungarian online legal forum. She gave a presentation about Interest-based and result-orientated communication tools for lawyers with the title „How should lawyers communicate and act in the interest of their clients?” at ECTA’s Annual Conference in Copenhagen in June 2022 and also she gave a presentation to Hungarian IP lawyers about mediation in 2020 about the importance of mediation. She also gave trainings to Hungarian lawyers organized by the largest Hungarian legal publishing company (Orac) in March 2023 and 2024 about the significance of identifying divergent interests and assertive communication, conflict management methods and meditation. She has been a speaker at EUIPO’s 4th IP Mediation Conference in October 2023 and also at a regional conference organized by EUIPO-HIPO in Budapest in March 2025. Judit gave presentation at EUIPO MCSN in 2026 May. She co-organized a Mock mediation workshop at ECTA’s Annual Conference in June 2026 where she was co-moderator-narrator with EUIPO.