Advice on:

• Technical inventions (patent law, utility model law)
• Trademarks (trademark law)
• Design (design law, formerly registered design law)
• Know-how, protection of software, licenses (contract law)
• Plant variety protection (Plant Variety Protection Act)
• Employee inventions, invention disclosures, inventor compensation, arbitration proceedings (employee invention law)

Support in establishing and developing your business:

• Prosecution of all industrial property rights and support up to grant (patents, utility models, designs, trademarks)
• Support with freedom to operate (FTO)
• Support in redesigning your products as a workaround for existing third-party patents
• Preparation and review of translations
• Administration of your property rights (annual fees, monitoring of property rights such as trademark applications, ...)

Support in disputes with your competition:

• Preparation and conduct of contentious proceedings such as oppositions, nullity actions, cancellation actions, ...
• Conducting searches to determine the state of the art
• Preparation of expert opinions
• Drafting contracts for out-of-court settlements
• Processing of property right infringements before civil courts (in cooperation with a lawyer)

I represent you before:

• Representation before the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court, the Federal Plant Variety Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the Federal Supreme Court
• After consultation with you abroad through cooperation with locally based foreign attorneys
• Support in the event of property right infringements before civil courts in cooperation with a lawyer

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