Activity + Experience
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.