Patents - IP
LLP Law|Patent utilizes its many years of experience in the field of IP Law for mutually beneficial and successful cooperation with its clients.
Applications for and registration of property rights
Whether individual property rights or comprehensive protective rights portfolios, with its technical expertise and legal know-how, LLP Law|Patent provides national and international intellectual property rights for innovations, without this being an end in itself.
Applications for and registration of property rights:
- Patent/utility models
- Branding
- Corporate ID
- Design
- Portfolio management
- Development consulting
- Confidentiality Agreements
IP Strategies
Patents as a distinction for inventors, as a measure of innovation or to obtain exclusive market situation? LLP Law|Patent realizes clients’ individual IP strategies, to achieve their goals
IP Strategies
- Objectives
- Approach: defensive/offensive
- Budgeting
- Effective interplay of know-how, patent, trademark and design
- Patent workshops
- R & D
Enforcement of IP rights
The third party may not manufacture, offer, place on the market, sell, use, apply, introduce, use to identify, reproduce or disseminate: IP rights holders in competition with others have a monopoly, which can be applied effectively after analysis of the situation.
Enforcement of IP rights
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Authorization request and warning
- Complaint
- Interim relief
- Customs seizures
- Protective letters
- Infringement proceedings
- Licensing negotiations
Troubleshooting IP conflicts
A client confronted with an IP conflict sparks LLP Law|Patent’s ambition to show potential ways to defuse the situation.
Troubleshooting IP conflicts
- Workarounds
- Destruction of IP rights
- Licensing negotiations
- Delimitation and settlement agreements
Destruction and defense of IP rights
A company’s freedom to act can often only be secured by the partial or total destruction of an IP right. Whether attacking or attacked, whether negotiating with the counterparty or are ready to litigate, clients benefit from the legal and technical competence of LLP Law|Patent.
Destruction and defence of IP rights
- Analysis of situations, including risk costing and prospects for success
- Research
- Opposition proceedings
- Appeal proceedings
- Cancellation proceedings
- Actions for annulment
Utilization of technologies, know how and IP rights
Utilization of technologies, know-how and IP rights
- Licensing agreements
- Cross-Licensing
- Marketing
- Patent marketplace
- Patent pool
- Antitrust law
- GMO TT (block exemption for technology transfer)
IP due diligence examination
For IP due diligence examinations not only in pre-planned M & A transactions, clients will find competent contact persons in LLP Law|Patent, patent attorneys and patent attorneys, well versed in various commercial law areas.
IP due diligence examination
- Situational analysis and questioning
- Estimation of time and cost frameworks
- Analysis of a company’s IP rights
Freedom to operate analysis
LLP Law|Patent accompanies clients on the path to a successful market launch. Because even if a product is new and innovative, its sale may infringe third party IP rights. These IP rights must be determined and comprehensively assessed by means of a targeted patentability [FTO] analysis.
Freedom to operate analysis
- Defining the subject matter of the FTO analysis
- Determining the territorial scope of the FTO analysis
- Estimating the time and cost framework
- Searches and expert opinions on IP rights infringement
- Measures for preventing infringement
- Searches and opinions on the legal standing of IP rights
Employee Invention Law
The Employee Invention Law – unique to Germany – presents issues and tasks concerning which LLP Law|Patent assists in an advisory capacity.
Employee Invention Law
- Internal measures
- Employee invention models
- Employee rights in international companies
- Incentive programmes
- Calculation methods
- Remuneration policies
- Arbitration body for workers' compensation
- University inventions
- Independent Inventors
- Cooperation agreements
- Managing agreements
IP Management
IP management is not just about the generation and administration of IP rights, but also about addressing multiple interdisciplinary tasks involving the expertise of different business areas. LLP Law|Patent supports clients in developing and expanding their own IP management model.
IP Management
- Patent management
- R & D Integration
- Control over innovation processes
- Innovation management
- Technology management
- Ideas workshops
- Organization of a patent department
- Lectures and training to promote an innovation culture
Monitoring IP rights
Technologies and IP portfolios must be maintained and defended against infringement. To promptly identify risks of conflict and to take legal action, regular monitoring of technological fields is thus unavoidable. Together with Law|Patent, clients will find a monitoring model that meets their specific requirements and options.
Monitoring IP Rights
- Establishment and evaluation of IP rights monitoring
- Internal management of monitoring results
- Monitoring competitors
- Monitoring examination procedures for selected IP rights
- Infringements avoidance
- Recognition of technological trends
Copyright
Patent and copyright law may be cumulative, or copyright may protect where patent law does not apply. For both, client support is available at LLP Law|Patent.
Copyright
- Copyright protection of computer programmes
- Escrow agreements
- Resale of software
- Software licensing and software development agreements
- EULA
Funding
Funding
- WIPANO patent promotion by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi)
- Partnership application
Competition Law
The principle of the freedom to copy exists, in the absence of any conflicting, exclusive rights. Whether such copying is unfair, and thus limited by the protection of competition law, depends on various factors. LLP Law|Patent helps in analysing and enforcing this.
Competition Law
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Supplementary competition law protection against infringement