- 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
