The practice focuses on patents, trademarks and broader industrial property rights, combining legal expertise with technical and scientific knowledge. Its patent attorneys include engineers and physicists, enabling the firm to handle technically sophisticated inventions and IP portfolios across a range of industries.
The firm assists clients with both IP prosecution and contentious matters, including developing strategies for defending and enforcing intellectual property rights in infringement and other IP conflicts. Its patent work includes technologies such as engineering, electronics, chemistry and related technical fields.
The firm is a specialist patent and IP practice, with particular strength in technically complex inventions. Its patent attorneys have engineering or physics backgrounds, allowing it to combine technical expertise with German, European and international IP law.
- Patent Law & Prosecution
Drafting and filing German, European and international patent applications, as well as handling examination and opposition proceedings. - Utility Models (Gebrauchsmuster)
Protection and prosecution of technical inventions through German utility-model rights. - Patent Strategy & Portfolio Management
Developing commercially focused IP portfolios and protection strategies for companies, start-ups and individual inventors. - Freedom-to-Operate (FTO)
IP searches and FTO analyses to identify potential third-party patent risks before products or technologies are commercialised. - Patent Infringement & Enforcement
Develops offensive and defensive strategies for infringement disputes, including out-of-court resolution and support in court proceedings. - Trademarks
Trademark strategy, registration, prosecution, enforcement and disputes involving product and company identifiers. - Designs
Protection and enforcement of registered designs covering aesthetic and product designs. - Employee Inventions
Advises employers and employees on German employee-invention law and associated rights and obligations. - Licensing & IP Commercialisation
Drafts and advises on licence agreements and the commercial exploitation, acquisition and sale of IP rights and portfolios, including IP due diligence. - IP Due Diligence & Valuation
Reviews IP portfolios in connection with transactions and provides opinions concerning validity and infringement. - Technical IP
Particular technical experience includes physics, engineering, laser technology, photonics, measurement technology, automotive engineering, fuel cells, nanotechnology, IT and software-related inventions. - Medical Technology
Advises medtech companies, SMEs and start-ups on patent protection, FTO investigations, portfolio development and competitor patents. - Optics, Lasers & Photonics
A notable technology focus, including emerging technologies in optics, laser technology and photonics. - Software & Computer-Implemented Inventions
Handles IP issues surrounding software-related and computer-implemented technical inventions.
