The law firm has its main office in Munich, which is the "patent capital" of Germany or the whole Europe. The German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court as well as the European Patent Office are all seated in Munich. Thus, Munich plays a very important roll for international companies to develop their intellectual property rights strategy in Europe.

Our practice is focused on all kinds of proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (EU trademarks and designs), as well as infringement proceedings before German District Courts.

Our service includes:

• Obtaining and maintaining intellectual property rights: elaborating application documents for patents, utility models, designs and trademarks, filing applications, paying official fees, handling office communications, observing time limits, paying annual fees or renewal fees to maintian the validity of the intellectual property rights

• Attacking or protecting intellectual property rights: filing oppositions, nullity actions, limiting actions, deleting actions, etc.; or we help you protect your rights if they are under attack

• Enforcing intellectual property rights or the reaction: sending warning letters to potential infringers, filing infringement suits ; or acting against such enforcement actions from the third parties

• Legal support at exhibitions: Requesting preliminary injunctions from courts against your competitors; or filing oppositions against preliminary injunctions, filing protection letters to avoid the issuing of preliminary injunctions

• Search: worldwide search for intellectual property rights, legal status, or prior art

• Opinion: elaborating opinions on whether an intellectual property right is legally valid or whether an action infringes intellectual property rights

• Freedom to operate analysis: analyzing whether you can start marketing your new products in Europe without the concerns of infringing intellectual property rights of your competitors

• Contracts: drafting license contracts, technology transfer contracts, non-disclosure agreements, purchasing or transfer contracts for intellectual property rights

• Employee inventions: determining the ownership of an invention made by an employee in a company in Germany; determining the amount of rewards for the employees making an invention

• Report and seminar: on subjects related to intellectual property rights protection (in German, English, or Chinese)  

• Coordination of prosecutions and litigations in China in close cooperation with Chinese law firms

• Translation of Chinese documents or Proofreading of these translations