Services
We advise and represent you in matters of industrial / intellectual property rights; for example in the following matters:
● Advice on all aspects of technical inventions (including German employee inventors' rights), on innovation protection and on strategic product development
● Application, representation and procedural management for acquiring your own IP rights (such as patents, utility models, brands, designs, etc.), be it domestic or abroad
● Representation with all German, European and international IP authorities (DPMA, BPatG, EPA, EUIPO, WIPO)
● Coordination of national IP proceedings in other European and non-European countries
● Obtaining, defending and enforcing your own IP rights
● Defending your own IP rights against attacks by third parties
● Fighting against third-party IP rights once granted
● Defending you and your company against claims from third party's IP rights
● License agreements
● Technical translations
● Strategic planning of IP rights portfolios
● Research and monitoring of third-party IP rights
● Expert opinions and other legal or technical assessments on IP rights
The tasks in connection with IP rights are naturally very diverse; our services include, inter alia:
Patents (incl. Utility Models):
- Preparation of patent or utility model applications
- Representation and procedural management until grant of the patent (or utility model registration) and beyond
- Prior art search ahead of filing a patent application
- Representation and procedural management with all German, European and international patent authorities (DPMA; BPatG; EPA; WIPO)
- Coordination of national patent applications in any country in Europe or abroad (e.g. USA; Far East etc.); correspondence with colleague attorneys regarding respective international procedures
- Representation and management of German or European opposition proceedings against third-party patents
- Representation and management of German utility model deletion proceedings
- Advice on your global patent portfolio
Technical Fields:
In more than 20 years of professional experience in patent rights, I have been specializing in quite a number of technical fields such as (among others):
● Physics
● Semiconductor technology
● Semiconductor process technology
● Semiconductor components
● Optoelectronics
● Solid state physics
● Sensor technology
● Electrical engineering
● Medical technology
● Mechanical engineering
● Automotive and vehicle technology
● Materials
● Printing technology
● Machine tools
● Measurement technology
● Photo and video technology
● Digital image processing
● Audio technology
● Optics
● Fiber optic technology
● Mechanics
Trademarks:
- Preparation and filing of German, European and international trademark applications
- Trademark search ahead of filing a trademark application
- Representation and procedural management until registration of the trademark and beyond
- Taking on representation and conducting proceedings before the DPMA, BPatG, EUIPO, WIPO
- Defense of your trademarks and contestation of third-party trademarks (e.g. in opposition proceedings)
Designs:
- Elaboration and submission of design applications (including EU designs)
- Design search ahead of filing a design application
- Representation and procedural management until the registration of the design and beyond
- Representation before the DPMA, BPatG, EUIPO, WIPO
- Defending your designs or fighting against third-party design rights