The advice comprises in particular all requests about achievement, maintenance, defence and challenge of industrial property rights.
The representation of third parties includes mainly proceedings before German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), Bundessortenamt (BSA), before Federal Patent Court (BPatG), in special cases before the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), before the OHIM and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The representation of a client comprises depending on property right and type of proceedings:
- Apply a file inspection
- Response to official notifications regarding registration and examination procedures
- File an opposition respectively revocation against third party granted patent
- Calculation and monitoring of time limits
- Compilation of opinions regarding patentability
- Collision monitoring regarding trademarks with later filing dates
- Practicing cancellations of utility models respective trademarks
- Preparation of searches including annotation regarding prior art, domain names and company names and trademarks
- Notification and verification amendments and transfer of rights and follow-up of their registration
- Introduction of copyrights for title of publications, work titles and protection of titles of literally works
- File opposition against registered trademark or
- Monitoring of filing fee, renewal fee, maintenance fees of industrial property rights, registration and publication fees and payment of those on the due date.
A further field of activity is the participation in litigations before ordinary courts in order to enforce your intellectual properties, i.e. legal action concerning copying of a registered design right, infringement of a patent, vindication or decrial of a trademark. A further activity can be a request for customs action, especially for detainment of imported infringing/counterfeiting goods or for prevention of plagiarism.
Also the verification and draft of license agreements or contracts of sale in order to commercialize your intellectual properties is offered.
Please note the Legal Notices.
