Intellectual property
Rendering advice and representation in disputes before court and administrative bodies in matters concerning, for example,
- application and prosecution, maintenance, transfer and protection of rights to technical products of all kinds (trade and service marks, trade dress, design, software, microchips, know-how, commercial secrets, patentable inventions etc.), and to works of art (compositions, audiovisual works, works of applied art, literary works, photographies, performances, radio- and tv-broadcasts, etc.)
- conflicts between trade- and/or service marks, company names, trade dresses, domain names, product designations, etc.
- copyright and neighboring rights, trademark, patent, domain name and similar infringement litigation
- tariff negotiations with collecting societies and tariff reference proceedings
- grey market imports
Examination and drafting of contracts concerning, for example,
- the assignment or licensing of copyrights, trade- and service marks, patents, designs, or the development modification and distribution of software
- the creation and exploitation of musical, audio-visual, literary, photographic and other works of art, the music-, book- and newspaper publishing business
- the production of and the rights to sound- and visual-recordings
Product piracy, seizures of counterfeits, proceedings before customs authorities