Ensure the best possible protection for your intangible assets. We provide you with holistic advice and a comprehensive range of services in the area of industrial property protection. Our typical tasks include patent protection
and utility model protection Research on the state of the art and the formulation and registration of patents and utility models for your technical inventions. We assist you in the official examination process and help you successfully obtain a patent for your invention. We also advise you on all issues of trademark law, design and design law. We support you in trademark protection in filing and registering your word marks, company name or protecting your logo and securing product marks and product designs (design protection or design protection) - nationally, EU-wide and internationally. We represent your industrial property rights before the relevant offices and courts.

REPRESENTATIVE RIGHTS OF OUR LAW FIRM (EXCERPT)
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- German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Federal Patent Court (BPatG)
- Unified Patent Court (EPG)

In addition, we represent you in patent nullity and compulsory license matters before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Arbitration Board for Employee Inventions and the Arbitration Board for the Exercise of Copyright Rights.

Enforce your rights. Your industrial property rights grant you a temporary unique position and a right to prohibit third parties. Unfortunately, your competitors don't always comply. In disputes relating to your patents, utility models, trademarks and designs, we represent your interests. Our range of services ranges from research activities, eligibility requests and warnings in pre-trial proceedings to negotiations before patent offices and courts to settlement negotiations with the other party.

ACCOMPANYING MEASURES IN THE AREA OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY PROTECTION

Safeguard your claims and enforce them comprehensively — in and out of court. We advise you on all issues relating to patent law, utility model law, trademark law and design law. In addition, we advise you on the Workers Invention Act (ArbEG) and represent your company before the arbitration board as well as in court proceedings if necessary. In addition, we provide you with accompanying advice on aspects under the Unfair Competition Act (UWG), the Restraints of Competition Act (GWB), the Copyright Act (UrhG) and the Trade Secrets Protection Act (Trade Secrets Act: GeschGehG).

SET THE COURSE TO PERMANENTLY OPTIMIZE YOUR ECONOMIC BENEFITS.

Regardless of whether you want to exploit your intellectual property rights externally or use the ideas of others yourself:

We support you in licensing your intellectual property rights to third parties and vice versa with licensing. With fair and reliable negotiation, we lay the foundation for trusting and long-lasting cooperation between you and the licensee or grantor.

Their economic benefits are also paramount when it comes to the balance sheet valuation of intellectual property rights or the patent portfolio valuation. We help you to determine the appropriate and fair value of your intellectual property rights and to objectify the question of how to extend them. The basis for this is a holistic approach and our evaluation tool, which has been developed in practice and has been tried and tested many times over. Especially with an extensive patent portfolio, this allows you to regularly check the economic value of individual property rights and make well-founded decisions about extending them.

In trademark law, we support you, your marketing department or your marketing agency in choosing an available and protectable new trademark and take care of maintaining and maintaining your trademark portfolio. We identify third party rights that may dilute or otherwise affect your trademarks or company names. In addition, we will work with you to identify and obtain the evidence of use necessary to enforce and extend your trademarks and assist you at an early stage in documenting the legally maintaining use of your trademarks.