Patents/utility models

  • Technical patent and utility model searches in cooperation with experienced searchers -> expert opinions on patentability, searches of legal status (freedom from patent / freedom from replicas), name searches (competitor activities), monitoring searches of specific fields of the prior art
  • Preparation and filing German, European and International PCT Patent Applications as well as German utility model applications, claiming priorities
  • Examination and grant proceedings before the DPMA and EPO
  • International preliminary examination process
  • Opposition proceedings for German and European patents
  • Arranging the filing of patents and utility models abroad via corresponding attorneys
  • Cooperation with foreign patent attorneys in the examination and grant proceedings before the national offices - preparation of instructions
  • Actions for annulment before the Federal Patent Court
  • Executing warnings
  • Executing patent and utility model infringement proceedings as co-acting attorney, together with an experienced legal attorney’s office
  • Representation in cancellation proceedings for own utility models and utility models of third parties
  • Expert opinions on infringement, assistance in the search for circumventing solutions
  • Maintaining patents and utility models, monitoring annual or extension fees