Competencies
We advise, support and represent your interest in obtaining, defending and enforcing your intellectual property rights. Here are our services in detail:
Developing your intellectual property rights portfolio
- Developing strategies to guard innovation and investment
- Identifying significant innovations
- Choosing the appropriate application procedure and type of intellectual property rights
- Preparing and prosecuting applications
- Implementing German Employee Inventions Act
Defending your intellectual property rights
- Providing expert opinion on the legality of your intellectual property rights
- Offering legal representation for opposition, nullity and cancellation proceedings before the German authorities and court
Enforcing your intellectual property rights against third parties
- Providing expert opinion on any potential infringement
- Preparing and prosecuting extrajudicial proceedings
- Offering legal representation for infringement proceedings
- Obtaining preliminary injunctions
- Enforcing confiscation laws at borders, harbors, airports, trade fairs and exhibitions through customs and law enforcement
Exploiting your intellectual property rights
- Consulting in licensing negotiations
- Preparing and analyzing licensing and exploitation agreements
Defending against third party intellectual property rights
- Offering legal representation for infringement proceedings
- Providing expert opinion on any potential infringement on third party intellectual property rights (freedom to operate) and defending against these rights
- Providing extrajudicial settlements and consultation in licensing negotiations
Evaluating intellectual property rights
- Providing expert opinion on the legality of individual intellectual property rights
- Preparing due diligence reports for intellectual property rights and an intellectual property rights portfolio