The IP Law Firm (Patent Attorney and Certified IP Lawyer) offers the following services regarding patents (e.g. in Germany and Europe):

Representation at Patent Offices by European and German Patent Attorney:

• National, regional and international patent applications (patent prosecution and registration) (e.g. German Patent at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, European Patent at the European Patent Office in Munich)
• Opposition proceedings
• Renewal of patents, payment of maintanance / annual fees
• Patent validation in Germany and other European countries
• Assignment / transfer of patents (application / registration)
• Procurement of priority document and patent certificates
• Applications for change of register (e.g. change of ownership)

Extrajudicial and judicial representation (enforcement and defense of claims) by Patent Attorney and German Certified IP Lawyer:

• Authorisation enquiry
• Warning letters (German: “Abmahnung”) due to patent infringements as well as (modified) declarations to discontinue
• Contractual penalty due to declarations to cease and desist
• Interim injunctions due to patent infringements (patent litigation)
• Law suits concerning patent infringements
• Actions for annulment / nullity actions

General services:

• Patent consulting and formulating patent applications
• Searches for state of art (by us or in cooperation with specialists) in preparation of a patent application or in preparation of opposition proceedings or actions for annulment
• Searches for intellectual property rights to evaluate possible infringements (e.g. to be considered for product developments)
• Infringement opinions
• Support for developing workarounds
• Monitoring of patent applications and patents of competitors
• Monitoring of patent classes (e.g. for observing innovations and recent developments)
• Monitoring terms of patents
• Supervising patent portfolios
• Drafting of contracts regarding patent sales and buys
• License agreements for patents (e.g. cross-licensing) (negotiation, drafting)
• Cooperation with IP law firms around the world

The IP Law Firm (Patent Attorney and Certified IP Lawyer) offers the following services regarding utility models (e.g. in Germany and Europe):

Representation at Patent Offices by European and German Patent Attorney:

• Applications for utility models / industrial designs (utility model prosecution and registration) at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich
• Utility model cancellation procedures
• Renewal of utility models, payment of maintanance / annual fees
• Splitting-off of utility model applications
• Assignment / transfer of utility models
• Procurement of priority document and utility model certificates
• Applications for change of register (e.g. change of ownership)

Extrajudicial and judicial representation (enforcement and defense of claims) by Patent Attorney and German Certified IP Lawyer:

• Authorisation enquiry
• Warning letters (German: “Abmahnung”) due to utility model infringements as well as (modified) declarations to discontinue
• Contractual penalty due to declarations to cease and desist
• Interim injunctions due to utility model infringements
• Law suits concerning utility model infringements

General services:

• Utility model consulting and formulating utility model applications
• Searches for state of art (by us or in cooperation with specialists) in preparation of a utility model application or in preparation of utility model cancellation procedures
• Searches for intellectual property rights to evaluate possible infringements (e.g. to be considered for product developments)
• Infringement opinions
• Support for developing workarounds
• Monitoring terms of utility models
• Supervising utility model portfolios
• Drafting of contracts regarding utility model sales and buys
• License agreements for utility model (e.g. cross-licensing) (negotiation, drafting)
• Cooperation with IP law firms around the world

The IP Law Firm (Patent Attorney and Certified IP Lawyer) offers the following services regarding Employee’s Inventions Law in Germany:

For employers:

• Advices regarding questions and issues in the field of employee’s inventions
• Assistance in handling employee’s inventions (e.g. formulating invention reports, developing compensation models)
• Implementation of standard procedures starting from notificaton up to patent registration of employee’s inventions
• Training of employees (e.g. to make them aware for issues of Intellectual Property rights, in order to fully exploit development results)
• Representation in proceedings before the arbitration board

For employees:

• Advice regarding questions and issues in the field of employee’s inventions
• Assistance with the prosecution of claims (e.g. developing compensation)
• Representation in proceedings before the arbitration board