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Patents and Trade Secrets - Compliance

The steadily growing number of patents and the associated assertion of patent rights claims makes a comprehensive risk analysis indispensable even before new products are marketed in order to minimize litigation risks. It is also important to effectively protect the inventions and expertise made in the company. Only in this way can the innovative power and knowledge lead of your company be secured in the long term. Within the framework of an IP audit, we not only analyse existing risks at various legal levels, but also show you how you can effectively protect your own inventions and knowledge or activate these rights.

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Protection of Intellectual Property

We offer

  • Protection and enforcement of patents and know-how, defence against infringement Assertion of and defence against infringement
  • Review of license and supply agreements
  • Purchase and sale of patents and know-how
  • Monetisation of unused rights
  • Inadequate employment contracts
  • Advice on confidentiality measures


Approach and Range of Services

Approach

Patents give your company an exclusive right to an invention, which must be protected and exploited. By effectively protecting your knowledge, you can protect the supremacy of your company on the market in the long term. This applies not only to high-tech companies, but to companies in all industries. For example, the recipe of Coca Cola has been secret since 1886 thanks to effective protection of secrets. 

We help you to find the right property rights strategy and support you in its effective implementation. For us, this does not only begin when your invention is already ready for the market. We advise you on the drafting of contracts and sensitize you to effective confidentiality measures in your company. Because only effective protection against external and internal betrayal of secrets can protect your intangible assets permanently. Should your company wish to sell or buy patents or know-how, our experienced attorneys will ensure that the contract is drafted in a way that suits your interests.

In the event of legal disputes, our team is at your side. We help you to enforce your own rights and to defend against third party industrial property rights. Our lawyers have considerable experience in infringement and nullity proceedings, both before the ordinary courts and before the national and European patent offices.

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Range of Services

  • Legal structuring of the patent system in your company and optimization of internal processes
  • Enforcement of industrial property rights and defence against attacks by third parties before courts of law and national and European patent offices
  • Advice on employee invention law and drafting of clauses for employment contracts and confidentiality agreements
  • Preparation and negotiation of contracts (license agreements, research and development contracts, etc.)
  • Assistance with the purchase and sale of companies or patent portfolios
  • Border confiscation of patent infringing products
  • Staff training
  • Advice on factual confidentiality measures


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