Our Patent and Intellectual Property 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

Our Patent and Intellectual Property 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

Our Patent and Intellectual Property 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