Once an industrial property right has been registered, fees for maintaining the protection of the IP right must be paid to the competent authority at certain time intervals. The due dates for the payment of these maintenance fees must be determined and monitored to ensure that an IP right does not inadvertently expire.

Our service does not end with the registration of an industrial property right, but we also support you and your IP rights beyond that. We keep an overview of your IP rights for you and manage your IP rights portfolio. This portfolio management relieves you so that you can concentrate on your core business. We analyse your intellectual property rights portfolio and create IPR portfolio maps for you for a quick overview and a convincing presentation of your intellectual property rights.

Our portfolio management includes not only monitoring the due dates of maintenance fees but also sending reminders for these due dates and processing the payment of official fees for the maintenance of domestic and foreign IP rights.

Furthermore, we monitor any deadlines for proof of use of your intellectual property rights and remind you in good time of their expiry. If necessary, we also support you in providing proof of use documents. To do this, we carry out a use analysis for your trademarks and, if necessary, for your patents.

Finally, we can also monitor your intellectual property rights as part of our portfolio management services, enabling you to optimally defend and strengthen your intellectual property rights.