Legal Services

Trademarks

We offer our clients the following services among others in relation to trademarks:

• Conducting and evaluating trademark searches (identity and similarity searches) e.g. in preparation for your own trademark applications or to avoid infringement of the trademark rights of third parties
• Drawing up and filing German, European and International trademark applications at the relevant offices (German Patent and Trademark Office, European Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organisation)
• Representing our clients before all these offices, including monitoring all deadlines and fee payments
• Obtaining national trademark protection in foreign countries via permanent cooperating offices in all relevant countries of the world
• Conducting appeal proceedings against disadvantageous rulings and decisions of the relevant offices
• Representation in official opposition and cancellation proceedings against trademarks
• Drafting licence agreements and delimitation/coexistence agreements for settlement of trademark collisions
• Warning trademark infringers including obtaining preliminary injunctions
• Conducting trademark infringement suits using renowned and technically experienced attorneys at law
• Preparing expert opinions relevant to trademark law
• Setting up and evaluating ongoing trademark searches for monitoring your own property rights and the competitive environment
• and much more.