We advise and represent you in the protection of your intellectual property

We have comprehensive experience in various fields of intellectual property protection. This includes not only technical intellectual property rights such as patents and utility models, but also the protection of designs and brands. Furthermore, one of the firm's special areas of expertise is the support of employee inventions and their compensation as well as contracts with a technological background.

In cooperation with selected, specialized law firms abroad, we offer a comprehensive, worldwide service in the field of intellectual property.

Services

Patents

  • Patent filing
  • Patent prosecution
  • Opposition proceedings
  • Appeal proceedings
  • Nullity actions
  • Patent litigation
  • Challenging third party protective rights
  • Performing and evaluating patent searches
  • Opinions on patentability

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Utility models

  • Utility model filing
  • Defending utility models in nullity proceedings and enforcing them in litigation
  • Attacking third party rights

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Supplementary protection certificates

  • SPC filing for medicinal products and plant protection products
  • SPC filing strategies
  • SPC prosecution
  • Pediatric extensions
  • Nullity actions against third parties’ SPCs
  • SPC litigation
  • Opinions on validity and infringement of third parties’ SPCs

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Trade marks and designs

  • Trade mark and design filing
  • Trade mark and design prosecution
  • Third party rights monitoring
  • Opposition proceedings
  • Performing and evaluating Trade mark searches
  • Opinions on registrability
  • Evaluating the legal situation regarding third party rights

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Employees' inventions

  • Calculating employees’ invention remunerations
  • Devising employees’ invention remunerations and flat-fee payment systems
  • Administrating employees’ invention remuneration
  • Vindication actions
  • Arbitration proceedings
  • Consulting for multinational co-inventorships

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License agreements

  • Drafting of patent and trademark license agreements
  • Support in the negotiation of licenses

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Additional contracts with a technological background

  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Research and development agreements
  • Cooperation agreements
  • Transcriptions of intellectual property portfolios in the event of transfer and sale of businesses
  • Option agreements

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Additional services

  • Consulting for start-ups, spin-offs, joint ventures
  • Plant variety protection

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Contact

Call us or write to us.
We will be happy to advise you.

Phone

+49 621 42 271-0 (Mannheim)

+49 211 157756-0 (Düsseldorf)

Email

info-man@ib-patent.de