Patent Law

Patent Law

Every day companies produce a variety of ideas and inventions that are intended to promote technical progress and safeguard the future. The establishment of high quality patent applications and utility model applications is one of our core competences.

Intermediary between Law and Technology

The drafting of patent applications for the effective protection of inventions requires a thorough technical understanding as well as an accurate knowledge of the relevant legal framework in order to interpret patent claims.

Here you profit from our extensive experience in several technical fields. Since all of our attorneys have a technical and scientific university education and many years of experience in either industry or research, we speak the language of the inventors. As an intermediary between law and technology, we can therefore examine the resulting ideas in a timely manner for their usable content.

We perform for our clients novelty searches, freedom to operate analysis and the drafting and filing of patent applications.

Apart from the representation before the patent offices and the pursuing and enforcement of patents, we regularly advise our clients on various patent strategies. Depending on the technical fields of the inventions, the sales markets of the products to which the inventions are incorporated, and the territorial competition situation, we are able to work out how effective protection for the inventions can be achieved with an effective price-performance ratio.

Patent Law - Focus Areas

Your Invention

Novelty searches

If desired, we will gladly provide you with the latest state of the art in a detailed novelty search to see if your ideas have already been developed by others. This helps, on the one hand, in the elaboration of patent applications, since we can significantly increase your chances of patent distribution based on a precise demarcation compared to the state of the art. On the other hand, you have an objective decision criterion by means of a novelty search, whether or not you want to file a patent application in view of the state of the art - because in a legal sense, an invention exists only if your ideas are new and not suggested by the prior art.

Patent and utility model applications

In drafting the claims of a patent and utility model application for your invention, we place particular emphasis to the correct formulations. This prevents that a competitor can circumvent the protection by means of a defective feature in the claim, as in practice it unfortunately happens frequently. If a patent application should be filed in more than one country, we formulate patent applications in such a way that success is ensured in many jurisdictions. This minimizes the risk of unnecessary follow-up costs due to lengthy foreign examination procedures. To this end, we exchange information regularly with our foreign partners.

Other Services

Representation before the patent offices

Naturally, we also assist our clients in examination procedures before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the European Patent Office (EPO). We carry out all procedures in either German or English, including appeals and opposition proceedings. Internationally, we protect your interests through our selected network of patent attorneys, with whom we are subject to regular professional exchanges.

Freedom to Operate Analyzes

We also perform Freedom to Operate Analyzes (Patent Clearing) to determine whether your products and developments may violate any existing third-party rights. This will help you to design your products in time in order to avoid infringements of intellectual property rights, or to enter into license agreements with the proprietor of the protected property at an early stage.

Enforcement of patents

Patents entitle their proprietors to prohibit third parties from using the patent-protected invention. If a patent infringement occurs, the patent proprietor may assert his claim for injunctive relief and compensation for damages. Together with our experienced fellow attorneys at law, we will gladly ensure that your interests are safeguarded, whether you are on the side of the patent owner or the potential infringer.