Patents ◆ Trademarks ◆ Designs

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The Range of Our Services

Whether for patents, trademarks or designs – we serve our clients in obtaining intellectual property rights on the national, European and international level and in the administration, enforcement and defense of your intellectual property rights.

Patents - Utility models

Patents and utility models ("petty patents") may protect the technical aspects of your good ideas. If the legal requirements are met, in particular a sufficient level of "inventiveness", you have a very powerful tool at your disposal in order to effectively enforce your rights, if necessary. Our partners identify valuable inventions in close cooperation with the inventors, draft the necessary applications for you and prosecute the applications after filing. Our partners also handle the renewal of the patents and patent applications entrusted to the respective firms.

Trademarks

Your good ideas usually need good marketing for economic success. For this purpose, a registered trademark is the intellectual property right of choice to distinguish your goods and services from those of your competitors. Our partners advise you on appropriate trademark strategies and prosecute the applications for implementing the chosen trademark strategy. Our partners also reliably manage your trademark portfolio, carefully handling the relatively long terms for renewals.

Designs

Today, many products must have a very appealing appearance, since in a competitive environment technical superiority alone is quite often no longer sufficient to attract end costumers and also business customers. Registered as well as non-registered design protection allows you to keep your competitors at bay. What kind of design protection is appropriate for your needs and how to get such protection may be worked out in cooperation with our partners. Subsequently, our partners conduct the registration and renewal procedures.

Licensing

Intellectual property (IP) rights can be licensed in many different ways. If you, as a holder of IP rights and thus as a licensor or as an interested user of external IP rights of a 3rd party and thus as a licensee, wish to enter into this economically very interesting area, our partners will advise you in all due detail and, if you wish, will draft and check license agreements for you.

Employee Inventions

Especially in Germany, the law dealing with employee inventions is important in daily business, both for you as an employer as for you as an employee. For employers, legally compliant internal processes and, as for employees, remuneration issues are of particular interest. Our partners advise you in all, sometimes quite tricky, matters in this field of law.

Infringements

Enforceable intellectual property rights (IPRs) confer quite extensive rights to IPR owners. Competitors of IPR owners may interfere with external IPRs. The question is: what should I do, what can I do? Such questions are certainly among the most complex aspects of IP and require legal advice by experts. Our partners assist you in cooperation with specialized law firms in such complex matters on either side by enforcing your IP rights or by defending you against the claims of IP holders.

Innovation Strategy

Even smaller and to a greater extent larger companies can significantly benefit from a well-considered innovation strategy provided that such strategy fits into day-to-day business and that is not only paperwork ending up in the drawer. How you may achieve very important strategic advantages in practical implementations is the outcome of a consultation process with you - carefully considering your corporate culture.

Internal IP Processes

Possessing intellectual property (IP) results in internal expenses. Especially with smaller, but also with larger IP portfolios, it is often possible to set up and make use of reliable processes with relatively simple means in day-to-day business. Our partners support you and pass on our extensive experience in this field and develop with you a sustainable and resilient solution for your needs.

Other Matters

Other topics in which our partners may assist you are inter alia internal trainings of employees in intellectual property (IP) law. In addition to administrative aspects, this also includes raising awareness of IP issues, the opportunities of searches in public databases of IP Offices and much more. Contact one of our partners, and the respective partner can work with you to develop a specific program tailored to your interests.

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