Legal Counselling made to measure in the following service sectors:

(There are various PDF files accessible for downloading. Unfortunately these are only available in German. To be able to read these files you will require the Adobe Acrobat Reader®, which you can access free of charge at www.adobe.com.)

Company Law

• Formation of a company in Germany, USA or various European countries
• Acquisitions, corporate mergers, changes in corporate form
• Joint venture formations in, for instance, China or Russia
• Agreements with investors, sleeping partners

Protection of Industrial Property

• Trademark Law:

• Counselling in the invention / creation of trademarks
• Implementation and evaluation of trademark enquiries
• Implementation of the application procedure – national, European, international
• Administration, maintenance, defence and enforcement of trademark rights

Basisinformation Markenrecht (PDF-Download in German, 28 KB)
Fachbeitrag "Marken" im Synergie Journal (in German)

• Patent Law | Utility Model Law:

• Counselling on patent-strategic issues
• Implementation and evaluation of patent searches
• Implementation of the application procedure – national, European, international
• Administration, maintenance, defence and enforcement of patent rights and utility model rights

Basisinformation Patentrecht (PDF-Download in German, 36 KB)
Basisinformation Gebrauchsmusterrecht (PDF-Download in German, 32 KB)

• Design Protection (Registered Design Law):

• Implementation and evaluation of registered design searches
• Implementation of the application procedure – national, European, international
• Administration, maintenance, defence and enforcement of registered design rights

Basisinformation Designschutz (PDF-Download in German, 28 KB)

• Protection of Software:

• Counselling on how to obtain software protection by means of patents,
models, trademarks and copyrights

Basisinformation Softwareschutz (PDF-Download in German, 28 KB)

• Patent Searches | Trademark Searches:

• Trademark searches
• Patent search and utility model searches
• Registered design searches
• Analysis of the competition

Basisinformation Patentrecherchen Markenrecherchen (PDF-Download in German, 28 KB)

• Employee-Inventor Law:

• Counselling for employers and employees
• Provision of an expertise
• Representation at boards of arbitration and in civil court proceedings

Basisinformation zum Arbeitnehmererfinderrecht (PDF-Download in German, 28 KB)

Competition Law

• Disputes on trademarks, company names
• Patent disputes, know-how disputes
• Advertising disputes
• Interim injunctions, petitions for restraining orders, disclosure, damages

IT Law

• Software development, licensing, support
• Hardware purchase and maintenance
• Project contracts
• E-Commerce, Internet

Contract Law | Licensing Law

• (International) distributorship and licensing agreements, research & development agreements
• Patent licensing, know-how / trademark licensing agreements, trade agreements
• Co-marketing and co-promotion agreements

Labour Law

• Staff recruitment and discharges
• Staff administration
• Employment contracts and termination agreements, contracts with freelancers
• Protection against unfair dismissal

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