Our support for your patents and utility models

• Drafting and filing of national, European and international (PCT) patent applications
• Filing of utility model applications and supplementary protection certificates with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
• Filing of patent applications abroad through our network of foreign correspondence attorneys and coordination of foreign procedures
• Validation of European patents in Germany and the EU (unitary patent)
• Coordination of the validation of European patents in other states
• Managing patent portfolios (our ’external IP department’ service)
• Patent renewal fee service and utility model renewal fee service
• Expert opinions on validity, enforceability and infringement of patents and utility models
• Involvement in and coordination of infringement proceedings in Germany and abroad
• Patent searches on the state of the art and to determine the legal status
• Consultancy on German employee invention law
• Patent monitoring (technical fields, competitors)
• We represent you before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO), the Federal Patent Court (BPatG), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Unified Patent Court of the EU (UPC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)