We act as comprehensive consultants to our clients in all matters relating to technical inventions, ranging from the assessment of proposals and preparation and prosecution of applications for patents and utility models worldwide to defending IPR against infringement and exploiting them through technology transfer. Our services include:

  • reviewing inventions, drafting and filing applications with the German Patent Office, managing the examination procedure up to grant
  • patent and novelty searches
  • filing applications for IPR in Europe and worldwide
  • filing, validating and representing the IPR of foreign proprietors in Germany
  • consulting and representation in the exploitation of IPR and know-how (licensing) on a national as well as international level
  • defending IPR against infringement and challenges
  • consulting in developing company policies for handling in-house improvement proposals and in matters of compensation for employee inventors
  • permanent monitoring of new applications and IPR by subject matter
  • opposition, cancellation and nullity actions