Protection of industrial property / intellectual property rights (ancillary copyright)
Features like the achievements, ideas, design, product design, technical solutions and characteristics with a high memorability that amount to the economic success of a firm need to be sufficiently protected from rivals and competitors. In order to ensure a sufficient protection for your products, actions and services we provide you with the necessary legal advice.
Our core areas of practice are:
Trademark law
- Filing strategies and advice for trademark registrations for national and international trademarks, the European trademark (Community Trade Mark, CTN) and the international trademark
- Trademark research
- Trademark registrations and prolonging the term of patent
- Monitoring trademarks and keeping a long-term calendar
- Pursuing claims of trademark violations both judicially and extra-judicially
- Averting unjustified trademark claims of third parties
- Developing and negotiating demarcation agreements
Design patents
- Giving advice for the German and European registration of design patents
- Registration of design patents and prolongation of the term of patent
- Monitoring and keeping a long-term calendar
- Judicial as well as extra-judicial pursuance of trademark violations
- Averting unjustified design patent claims of third parties
Patent law
- Registration of and giving advice on patents after consulting a patent attorney
- Pursuance of patent violations and averting unjustified claims of third parties
Copyright
- Giving advice to matters regarding the copyright
- Pursuance of copyright violations