About this office:

Established in 1895, the firm is one of the leading IP boutiques in Germany and offers a full range of legal services in Intellectual Property Law and related fields of law. The firm is one of the few in Germany whose team includes both, Patent Attorneys and Attorneys-at-Law. The attorneys of the firm are entitled to represent their clients before the German and European Patent Offices, the German Federal Patent Court and, in certain cases, before the Federal Supreme Court as well as before the European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market, the Courts of the European Union, and all German District and Upper District Courts. The firm is handling IP law matters, both, prosecution and litigation, in Germany and, on a global scale, through its excellent worldwide network of co-operating IP law firms. Several of the firm's attorneys have been educated in US and UK law schools and are, therefore, familiar with the legal traditions of civil and common law. The firm's partners and associates are members of various international associations, such as AIPPI, ABA, ECTA, INTA, FICPI, MARQUES, PTMG, in many of them as chairperson. The firm is well-known for its traditional fields of IP practice, namely German and international trademark law, licensing, patent and utility model law, design and copyright law, media law, and antitrust law. Furthermore, the firm concentrates on unfair competition law, pharmaceutical law, food and cosmetics law, sports law and IT law.

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