Patents can protect developments in various areas, e.g. in the fields of engineering, chemistry or physics, medicine or biology, or even extend to objects of daily use, in the form of products, pre-products, in their use or as a method, being based on an invention, which can thereby be protected almost world-wide.

Patents mean values

Your ideas and your know-how are economic values for your company. However, they are in danger to be exploited by competitors if they are not properly protected by protective rights. Patents as tools help to control competitors and support you to secure and expand your scope of innovations.

From the idea to a patent

When filing a patent application, the potential of a technological invention should already have been recognized. Likewise, a patent application should be drawn up which also takes alternative solutions into account. The patent description should be worded in such a manner that in case of an infringement, it can be enforced. The decisive foundation for a far-reaching patent protection is thus laid when filing the application.

Our long-standing experience in the field reaching from preparing the initial patent application to obtaining patent protection and defending patents enables us to support you in the countries of interest to you. It goes without saying that we fall back on a network of competent foreign representatives. We support you from step one in building up, integrating and continuously improving your patent strategy and to adapt it to the demands of the time. To this end, we have developed appropriate tools that we can place at your disposal.

In the patent field, our services extend to the following areas:

Patent watch / Competition watch

• We conduct status searches in the countries of interest to you.
• Moreover, we conduct patent and patent application watches with respect to third parties' protective rights. The results are on display in your personal eServices area so that you can use them for in-house patent analysis / patent watch.

Evaluation / Use

• We prepare expert opinions with respect to validity and enforceability of patents.
  
• We prepare licence agreements for you.
• We evaluate the economic value of a patent for you.
  

Infringement / Collision

• We file oppositions and nullity suits against third parties' patents.
• We prepare infringement expertises.
• We support you to enforce your patents in infringement proceedings against third parties encroaching on your protective rights.
• We defend you in infringement proceedings against third parties.