Entrepreneurial success is primarily based on exclusive intellectual property (IP), which may include trademarks, designs, patents, utility models, copyrights, know-how, or trade secrets.
We advise well-known Austrian and international companies and groups on all related intellectual property and currently manage a large number of trademarks of our clients. Due to our long-standing attendance of international trademark law conferences, we have built up a worldwide network of trademark experts and are thus able to offer solutions to our clients via our correspondent law firms worldwide.
we offer in particular:
Creation and Acquisition of IP
- Development of a strong brand
- Registration of Austrian, European, and international trademarks, designs, and domains
- Strategic design and ongoing management of trademark, design, and domain portfolios
- Purchase of trademarks, designs, other IP, and domains
- Acquisition of IP licenses
- Representation in courts and before authorities
Protection and Defense of IP
- Judicial and extrajudicial contentious pursuit of infringements of trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, and other IP rights such as company identifiers and domains (litigation, transfers, C&D letters)
- Defense against third-party attacks based on the assertion of IP infringements
- Drafting and analysis of license agreements, coexistence agreements, prior rights agreements as well as trademark assignment agreements
- Representation in courts and before authorities
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Austrian Patent Office (ÖPA) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Exploitation of IP
- Designing licensing models
- Sale of trademarks, designs, other IP, and domains.