Field of activity
Specialist lawyer for intellectual property law
The term "Gewerblicher
Rechtschutz" (industrial property protection) covers a wide range of
legal fields that are more or
less all related to the
rights typically developed or
used in a
commercial enterprise.
In the broad
understanding of the specialist lawyer's regulations,
this also includes the
market conduct rules. According to our
understanding, in addition to the areas of law listed below,
also competition law:
The focus of industrial
property law is, for example,
the question of protecting one's
own market presence under a
certain label. For example,
a trademark can be registered
– but perhaps protection of one's
own symbol without
registration is also sufficient. In this
area, too,
warnings are issued when a violation of
third-party trademark rights
is alleged.
In such cases, an examination by
inspecting the registers can only be an
initial step on the way to a
good solution.
Copyright has
increased in importance due to the digitization of works.
In many cases,
for example, image rights
are disputed. A photographer's copyright
arises more quickly than
many might think. Infringer surcharges
and license agreements are
The patent as one of the oldest
industrial property rights is often
still known. The similarly designed
design or registered design right
is less well known and can also be
non-registered right through
corresponding EU law.
There are treasures to be found here that
some people might not
even realize they have in their
portfolio.
A company's intellectual property is one of its
greatest economic assets. This
means that,
taking into account the 500
companies with the highest sales worldwide,
45% to 75% of the value of
these companies is based on intellectual
property rights (source: Communication
of the EU Commission COM(2011) 287 of
May 24, 2011). The protection of these
considerable corporate values
is the responsibility of the team of specialist lawyers
in our law firm for
intellectual property rights.
"Most Influential Intellectual Property Lawyer 2022"
is how Acquisition International magazine, a digital business publication with an international circulation of 108,500+ corporate professionals and c-level decision makers, described us in the 2022 Global Excellence Awards. The explanation of how the awards are decided: "Recipients are selected through a merit-based system, via research carried out by our own impartial team rather than external nominations. Our criteria requires that there is evidence of significant achievements and a clear commitment to innovation in a given field, for a company to pass the shortlisting stage and go on to be recognized."
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