Activities of the Patent Attorney's Office

Our work as attorneys focuses on:

• Advice and representation as patent attorneys in German, European and international patent and trademark law (inventions, trademarks, designs, know-how, etc.)
• Provision, maintenance and defence of all types of proprietary rights
• Guidance in proprietary right infringement processes
• Negation of proprietary rights by means of nullity and cancellation suits
• Creation and protection of new product or company names
• Drafting and preparation of licence, know-how and utilisation contracts
• Construction of proprietary right strategies
• Searches and expert opinions
• Advice in law relating to inventions by employees

Our technical expertise encompasses the fields listed below:

• Mechanical engineering, fine instrumentation
• Electrical engineering, electronics, computer software
  
• Automotive construction
• Control, automation and measurement technology
• Process technology, environmental technology
  
• Medical technology
• Micromechanics, semiconductor fabrication technology
  
• Information and communication technology
• Plastics technology
• Physics
• Mining, metallurgy
• Processing of raw materials and recyclable materials
• Vacuum technology