ServiceMonitoring
Monitoring industrial property rights and applications for industrial property rights of third parties, as well as monitoring the registration activities of competitors, are important business tools for observing and consequently analysing developments in a particular technical field or in a particular market. The knowledge gained from such monitoring can provide guidance for your own future business activities and for defending your own industrial property rights. We can carry out this monitoring for you and provide you with the monitoring results, one-off or on a periodic basis, tailored to your needs.
Monitoring the granting of patents is an important prerequisite for being able to systematically object to disturbing patents of third parties. This ensures that your own design freedom is not restricted to an avoidable extent. Patents granted can be determined both by constant monitoring of specific patent classes and by constant monitoring of the activities of specific applicants. These constant monitorings are part of our services.
We can also carry out individual application-specific watching for you in the case of a known patent application whose subject matter you may have infringed or which may be at risk of infringement through your own activities, in order to monitor the progress of this patent application. In this way, prior art material can be submitted to the examiner in charge already during the examination proceedings of a potentially disturbing patent application, in order to prevent a grant at this stage or to create favourable conditions for a later own opposition.
Of course, this monitoring service is not limited to national German IP rights, but can be carried out for you in the most important industrialised countries if you wish.
Monitoring the publication of applications or registrations of trademarks is an essential prerequisite for preventing the similarity of third-party trademarks to one's own trademarks by filing oppositions and thus securing and strengthening the scope of protection of one's own trademarks. We can monitor the publication of trademark applications and registrations for you and regularly report to you on relevant monitoring results. We can also regularly monitor Internet domain names that are identical to your trademarks or company name.
Of course, this monitoring service is not limited to national German trademarks and domain names, but can be carried out for you in the most important industrialised countries if desired.
If you know your competitors, we can monitor their activities in the field of industrial property rights for you. This way, you can gain insights into which utility models, patents or trademarks have been applied for or registered by your competitors.
This type of competitor monitoring allows you to see at an early stage whether your competitors are developing new markets or building up expertise in a very specific technical area.
