Prosecution
Whether patent, trademark or design, companies that are able to protect their inventions can secure important competitive advantages. Those who recognize the knowledge that exists in their company, how it can be promoted and how it can be utilized, will be a big step ahead of the competition. Often one’s own employees are a great source of knowledge. After all, they deal with a variety of issues on a daily basis and try to find solutions. And this can often lead to valuable ideas. These, in turn, should be protected in the form of property rights. Find out more about the property rights that might suit you!
Patent application
Anyone who invests in technological developments wants to benefit from them. And that is what patents are for. They entitle the holder to forbid others from using the invention for a certain period of time. Patentees can thus secure their economic strength through licensing or by marketing their patented ideas themselves. Thus, patents are often a key incentive for companies to actually keep on innovating.
The big question when it comes to the patent application: How do I express a complex situation as precisely as possible? Because, the simpler the right to protection for an invention is formulated, the more far-reaching it will become—a tricky task. This is where experts can help to find the simple aspects in a complex issue. Experts like us. We’ve got the necessary expertise, a keen sense of the market and the experience to meet all the requirements regarding content and form that are needed for a patent.
Validation of European patents
In order for a European patent (EP patent) to be valid in the desired countries, it must be validated after grant. Here, we also offer a comprehensive service in accordance with the rules of compliance as well as the professional guidelines for German patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law (confidentiality, liability, etc.). In order to help you decide in which European countries to validate your EP patent after grant, we provide you with a selection list that contains specific indications of the expected costs per country. In all countries where it is possible and reasonable, we represent you directly before the respective national office in order to keep the costs low. In all other countries we cooperate with selected patent law firms, which we have been selecting for you for decades based on quality and cost. Due to the resulting cost certainty, we can calculate the costs individually for each patent to be validated in advance. Thus, you can directly determine the cost of the entire validation process prior to putting in your validation order. All powers of attorney required abroad are centrally prepared by us and provided to you for signature simultaneously with the order confirmation. In addition, per order you receive only one invoice and one overall report for all countries. This saves you extensive file management and storage.
We currently manage over 12,500 EP validations.
Nationalizations
The effect of a patent in another country of the world depends on whether an application has been filed in that country with the respective national patent office in compliance with the respective regulations - and, if necessary, a translation into the respective national language. The typical countries in which nationalization takes place are the USA, Japan and China. In the countries in which the patent has been nationalized, it then has the same effect as a national patent. This means that it can also be used against infringers in that country. For the nationalization of patents, we work with experienced colleagues in over 100 partner law firms around the world. Our colleagues abroad, whom we also carefully select for you with regard to the technical and legal expertise required in each case, support us on a high professional level and at comparatively low costs. We have been building up this network of partner law firms since our firm was founded and continue to intensively monitor and maintain it through regular cooperation and visits. The large number of national patents that we manage for our clients as a whole plays an important role in this; in particular it enables us to obtain special purchasing conditions.
We currently manage over 3,600 national patents, of which around 800 are in the USA, 700 in China, and over 300 in Japan.
Trademark application
Brand names should awaken emotions and encourage consumers to buy. During the creation process, all kinds of proposals regarding these criteria are brought forward and checked. But the legal side of the matter is just as important. This is where it’s all about ensuring that the product can hold its own in the market and is given the best possible protection against counterfeiting. Trademark application is an important step to that end. We’ll support you with brand development and research and find out if your desired brand is sustainable and enforceable—even abroad.
You can rely on our expertise and experience. We are in charge of more than 12,000 brands on a national as well as international level. That makes us one of the leading German law firms in this area of intellectual property rights.
Design application
No doubt about it: The design of a product has a huge impact on the buying decision. Similar to a brand it often has an emotional effect on consumers and may even be the expression of one’s own identity. For companies, the design of their products is therefore also a customer retention tool. Which makes it all the more important that it is registered as a property right. This gives owners the exclusive right of usage for a certain period of time.
We’ll keep an eye on the protection of your design. In doing so, we’ll help you clarify the protective potential and develop an appropriate application strategy: important measures to help you protect yourself against competitors.
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We’ll support you in infringement proceedings in court, in opposition or revocation proceedings or at arbitration tribunals. Furthermore, we’ll show you exactly what to do when counterfeits of your products come into circulation.
Validity proceedings
We stand up for you if your intellectual property rights are attacked or if you want to challenge the validity of someone else‘s property right.
Employee inventions
Do you have innovative employees? We’ll develop processes with which you can use and secure the valuable ideas of your employees.