Services

- Expert opinions on the registrability of signs (marks) as trade marks
- Searches for marks (trade marks, company names, domains, titles) in Germany and abroad
- Assessment of names and claims in terms of competition law
- Delimitation agreements
- Purchase and sale of trade marks
- Representation of clients before the German Patent and Trade mark Office, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, the German Federal Patent Court and WIPO
- Drawing up of lists of goods and services
- Preparation of trade mark applications (German and Community [EU] trade marks, International Registrations)
- Drafting of responses to official actions
- Expert opinions on the legal validity of trade marks
- Due-diligence audits
- Opposition proceedings
- Cancellation proceedings
- Expert opinions on trade mark infringement issues
- Provision of specialist legal advice in infringement suits concerning marks
- Drawing up of licensing agreements
- Advice on trade mark strategies
- Trade mark portfolio management
- Prosecuting, enforcing and defending trade mark rights abroad (through cooperation with foreign colleagues)
- Reserving of domain names
- Applications for DENIC DISPUTE entries
- Purchase and sale of domain names
- Domain name arbitration proceedings (WIPO arbitration procedures)
- Placing of ads for title protection
- Monitoring of marks (trade marks, company names, domain names) for collision with more recent names