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Intellectual property, IT, data protection
In every office, our specialised IP lawyers provide comprehensive support across all areas of intellectual property, including trademarks, designs, patents, utility models, industrial rights, unfair competition, advertising, copyright, publishing, antitrust, licenses, and related contracts.
Our team is dedicated to both advisory and litigation support, guiding you through corporate transactions and due diligence, particularly around IP portfolios. We also manage trademark portfolios, helping you maximize the value of your IP rights.
Our team is dedicated to both advisory and litigation support, guiding you through corporate transactions and due diligence, particularly around IP portfolios. We also manage trademark portfolios, helping you maximize the value of your IP rights.
Operating on a higher level - if needed you can get the full IP package
Our IP services cover both national and international matters, always prioritizing legally sound and economically advantageous solutions that align with your business goals.
In all IP matters, we provide end-to-end advice and support, guiding you from the very start of your project through to its successful realization. Our expertise covers all aspects of establishing IP rights or building an IP portfolio, launching online and offline marketing campaigns, and entering new markets. Whether you're setting up a start-up, acquiring, or selling companies or IP-related assets, we ensure that every step aligns with your business objectives and maximizes the value of your IP.
Set up IP rights / implementation and management of an IP portfolio
A brief overview about what we can do for you:
- Protecting your IP rights in national and international contexts
- Administrative procedures before the various national trademark offices (registrations or proceedings)
- Trademark and design application procedures
- Contracts related to IP aspects / Licence agreement
- IP related marketing campaigns
- Drafting cease-and-desist letters
- Drafting and follow-up on administrative procedures in trademark law (actions before national, European and international offices)
- Trademark clearance searches and procedures for trademarks filing and registration
- Negotiation and drafting of contracts
- Trademark portfolio management
- Initiation and support in litigation procedures: drafting summonses and submissions (before civil, criminal, and commercial courts)
Trademarks
We offer to manage your trademarks. This is what you can expect:
- Developing trademark strategies
- Establishing and/or managing trademark portfolios
- Trademark research
- Trademark applications
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings (EUIPO, DPMA, WIPO)
- Monitoring of trademark collisions
- Exercising trademark rights extrajudicially and judicially
- Defence against alleged trademark infringements
Designs
We will work with you and protect what is yours.
- Developing design strategies
- Building design portfolios
- Handling applications, oppositions, and cancellation procedures (EUIPO, DPMA, WIPO)
- enforcing design rights both extrajudicially and in court
- Defending against alleged design infringements
- Managing design portfolios.
Patents
Patents are valuable property that deserves good protection.
We offer consultancy regarding protection of technical rights in the context of IP strategy, cooperation with patent attorneys in order to protect and register patents and utility models, assertion and enforcement of technical rights in cooperation with patent attorneys
Utility models
Similar to patents, utility models protect new technical inventions through granting a limited exclusive right to prevent others from commercially exploiting the protected inventions without consents of the right holders.
It is not easy to define a utility model, as it varies from one country to another. In general, utility models are considered particularly suited for protecting inventions that make small improvements to, and adaptations of, existing products or that have a short commercial life. In some countries, utility models can be applied for in the same fields of technologies as patents. In other countries, utility model protection is eligible only for the shape or structure of products in certain fields of technology, such as mechanical devices and apparatus, but not for technical, chemical and biological processes. Eligible subject matter for utility models varies significantly from one country to another.
In order to obtain protection, an application must be filed, and a utility model must be granted.
Countries where you can obtain utility models
Currently, a number of countries and regional patent offices provide utility model protection. These include several EU member states such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain ,Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic - just to name a few.
If you are interested this is the full list of countries that provide utility modes protection:
Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Oman, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, ARIPO, OAPI and Andean Community.
Protection of unregistered rights
More and more important these days - the protection of unregistered rights.
Domain name protection and disputes, firm name protection and disputes, enforcement of personal rights/rights in name, assertion and enforcement of rights from unregistered trademarks and designs - driving your business forward you will experience a lot of issues related to unregistered rights. We can be the expert by your side and guide you whenever needed.
Unfair competition and advertising
Often needed theses day - advice in compliance with unfair competition rules, strategic consultancy and advice with regard to marketing concepts and campaigns especially in the event of product launches, legal examination of advertising concepts and materials, assertion of rights in the event of an infringement of unfair competition rules, i.e.by drafting or defence against warning letters (extra-judicially), enforcing claims judicially in preliminary and/ or in normal court proceedings, in the event of defence against unfair competition claims also submitting “Schutzschriften” and extrajudicial mediation in competition law matters.
Copyrights
We offer legal advice on protectability and scope of works, advice on publishing rights, consultancy on the design and drafting of contracts regarding the evaluation and use of copyright protected works as well as distribution/rental/publishing agreements for copyright protected works or productions, in particular agreements regarding media productions, representation in negotiations for such contracts, exercising claims deriving from copyrights judicially and extrajudicially, advice on deposition of works for safeguarding proof of origin and priority, copyright related issues in marketing and sponsoring.
Feel welcome to contact us.
Your good reputation is an asset you should preserve (and defended)
Dealing with the press/media requires experience you might not have - we do. And we can help to protect your good reputation.
This is what we do:
- Legal advice on protection of company’s reputation and standing (e.g. rankings reports on products)
- Claiming and defence of claims relating to press law (among others - omission, revocation, counterstatement and damages)
- Advice on regulative press law (e.g. imprint, design of advertisements).
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Implementation and management of an IP portfolio
Our IP services cover both national and international matters, always prioritizing legally sound and economically advantageous solutions that align with your business goals.
A brief overview about what we can do for you:
- Protecting your IP rights in national and international contexts
- Administrative procedures before the various national trademark offices (registrations or proceedings)
- Trademark and design application procedures
- Contracts related to IP aspects / Licence agreement
- IP related marketing campaigns
- Drafting cease-and-desist letters
- Drafting and follow-up on administrative procedures in trademark law (actions before national, European and international offices)
- Trademark clearance searches and procedures for trademarks filing and registration
- Negotiation and drafting of contracts
- Trademark portfolio management
- Initiation and support in litigation procedures: drafting summonses and submissions (before civil, criminal, and commercial courts)
In all IP matters, we provide end-to-end advice and support, guiding you from the very start of your project through to its successful realization.
Our expertise covers all aspects of establishing IP rights or building an IP portfolio, launching online and offline marketing campaigns, and entering new markets. Whether you're setting up a start-up, acquiring, or selling companies or IP-related assets, we ensure that every step aligns with your business objectives and maximizes the value of your IP.
Procedures with the national and international authorities
We offer our clients assistance in administrative procedures before the various national trademark offices (registrations or proceedings). We handle trademark and design application procedures and represent our clients before the relevant authority, prepare the necessary documents and deal with the related correspondence.
In the same way we represent our clients in opposition or cancellation procedures.
Pre-litigation and litigation
We provide comprehensive support in pre-litigation matters, including drafting formal notice letters and guiding clients through each stage of legal proceedings in both commercial and intellectual property litigation across civil and criminal courts.
Our team represents you in IP disputes and litigation, working closely with national and international authorities as needed.
To protect your intellectual property, we implement robust anti-counterfeiting measures, from conducting investigations and monitoring customs surveillance procedures to overseeing online and offline tracking and confiscation of counterfeit goods. We also handle emergency and protective measures to secure your rights.
If your IP rights are infringed or if a third party claims an infringement, we’ll represent and defend you in both extrajudicial and judicial proceedings. For patent disputes, we collaborate with specialized patent attorneys if necessary to address technical aspects of the case, ensuring you have comprehensive support.
In the same way as for the registered IP-rights we assist our clients to protect and defend non-registered rights such as copyrights, titles, names and non-registered trademarks and designs by the appropriate legal means.
We will represent you in IP disputes, legal proceedings and litigation matters, including
- IP litigation with nationals and international authorities
- Pre-litigation procedures / emergency, temporary and/or protective conservatoires measures
- Opposition or cancellation procedures
- Legal proceedings
If the situation requires, we will implement anti-counterfeiting measures (investigations, implementation and monitoring of customs surveillance procedures, online / off line monitoring, confiscation of counterfeit goods) to protect our clients interests and property.
Contracts & Licenses
An essential part of our IP services is drafting and negotiating IP-related contracts, including licenses, IP rights acquisitions, delimitation agreements, and preferential rights agreements. We also routinely draft, review, and adjust contractual clauses related to IP liability, such as specifying legal consequences in cases of third-party rights infringements, to ensure your interests are thoroughly protected.
IP rights in combination with antitrust law or unfair competition law
In addition to our focus on both registered and unregistered IP rights, we place a strong emphasis on competition law, encompassing both antitrust and unfair competition matters.
Protecting IP rights often intersects with addressing unfair competition, so we integrate both perspectives where beneficial.
Our work in unfair competition includes advising on the legal compliance of advertising measures and reviewing marketing strategies and campaigns for admissibility.
In competition law, we actively protect your rights against third-party infringements and defend you against allegations of competition law violations, ensuring your competitive practices remain both effective and compliant.
IP rights in corporate transactions
Although often neglected, IP rights are relevant and important in almost every corporate transaction. Better to have an expert at you side!
We offer to guide you trough the process providing all you need in IP-related corporate transactions:
- Legal analysis of an IP-portfolio in the context of a legal due diligence,
- Consultancy in connection with the exploitation and sale/purchase of IP-rights,
- support with regard to the establishment of an IP -licence-management
IP-related contracts and IP-related compliance - on both you need an expert
IP-related contracts need the expertise of a specialist.
Contact us about Contract design and drafting as for instance trademark licence or purchase agreements, delimitation agreements, liability clauses in regard to priviliged rights in purchase, delivery or distribution contracts.
IP-related compliance - a matter that might need your attention, too.
Please be aware that - just as we predicted -, IP compliance is an issue that is becoming increasingly important. Our experts have years of experience and offer competent strategic advice on the establishment of IP compliance systems and establishment of monitoring systems concerning IP rights.
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