Our support with search and monitoring

Gathering and evaluating information are important routine activities in the field of industrial property protection, especially in the area of patents and trademarks. Knowing what the competitors apply for protection, for which products they receive IP rights and which development trends are en vogue in a technical field is part of the entrepreneur's job. We can support you with the following services:

• Conducting situation-specific searches for existing industrial property rights
• Conducting prior art searches in advance of technical IP right applications
• Conducting trademark searches for identical or similar trademarks in advance of trademark applications or during the trademark development process
• Systematic monitoring of third-party patents that have been applied for and registered in order to be able to lodge an opposition in good time
• Systematic monitoring of potential trademark collisions, to enable timely filing of an opposition against new trademarks
• Systematic monitoring of the IP activities of competitors
• Conducting freedom-to-operate searches prior to product developments
• Determining the legal status of third-party IP rights in Germany and abroad