Patent Attorneys


Partners in Your Economic Success

We are an established team of patent and trademark attorneys who have successfully represented a wide range of
domestic and foreign companies for many years. We also offer a wealth of experience in dealing with individual inventors,
research institutes, professors and universities. We have a sound knowledge base in many technical fields, environment,
including mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering. We have worked extensively in pharmaceuticals and with
computer software as well as with semi-conductor technology and biotechnology.

Our patent attorneys pursue their profession on an international scale and as a result are continually challenged by
innovation on a world-wide basis. Also, through continuing study of technological advances, they maintain their scientific
knowledge and engineering expertise at the leading edge of innovation. In addition to their advanced technological skills,
our team members possess the business expertise needed to help our clients maximize an invention's commercial
potential. Therefore, not only do we apply our technological expertise to maximize our client's vision of innovation,
but we also assist in maximizing and safeguarding the success of the invention in the economic market place.

We have special expertise in early dispute resolution techniques, including facilitating negotiations, early neutral evaluation,
arbitration and especially mediation. It is therefore our philosophy to advise our clients in seeking an early and effective
dispute resolution.

One of the reasons for our high degree of skill is that the patent attorney in Germany has gone through a thorough training
of at least three years and has passed a complete professional examination. Therefore, he is an experienced, success-oriented
partner to his clients, securing their intellectual property and commercializing inventions as well as assisting them in their
efforts to ward off brand piracy and counterfeiting by competitors and to develop and implement well-aimed trademark and
marketing strategies. We are also able to achieve the legal protection of new designs by registering the appearance of
products as design patents.

In contrast to the in-house attorney, however, the independent attorney is not limited to the interests of a specific company
or field of technology. Even large companies which maintain legal and patent divisions of their own seek the advice of
independent patent attorneys in industrial property matters of importance because they appreciate the ability of the independent
attorney to bring a wide range of knowledge and experience to the matter.

The title of PATENTANWALT (Chartered Patent Attorney) is protected by law in Germany and requires the longest
training/study time of all professions in Germany and of all comparable professions worldwide. For this reason, there
are less than 2800 patent attorneys in Germany with its roughly 80 million inhabitants.

Apart from his activities as an expert in all areas of industrial property, including trademarks and registered designs, the
PATENTANWALT in Germany is authorized to represent his clients before the German Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court,
the Federal Office for Plant Variety Patents and, in nullity suits, even before the Federal Supreme Court. He also represents
clients in matters before the Antitrust Commissions and arbitration boards.

A patent attorney's office such as ours which can look back on many decades of successful operation offers such experience
and a network of long-standing foreign relationships with associated agents and attorneys abroad. International activities are an
indispensable prerequisite for success in the field of industrial property.

All members of our professional partnership are admitted to practice as Professional Representatives before the European
Patent Office in Munich and also as trademark attorneys before the European Community Trademark and Design Office in
Alicante and before the International Bureau of WIPO in Geneva. Finally, some of our partners are or were actively involved
in national and international professional associates such as ECTA (European Communities Trademark Association) and
INTA (International Trademark Association), in the Board of Examiners for Patent Attorneys and as Honorary Judge at the
Landgericht (district court) of Munich.

Because patent and trademark attorneys perform their services specifically in the technologically-oriented sphere, they are
normally distinguished from attorneys-at-law and often are not registered as general attorneys who represent clients in a
variety of legal matters.

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