Design law
The firm's expertise in design law covers the following activities and areas of advice in particular:
Advice and registration
- Advice on the design of products, packaging and product features with regard to design/common design law risks
- Collision and availability searches in the run-up to a design/community design application
- Design/community design applications (Germany, EU, international design)
- Nullity and cancellation proceedings
- Representation in proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- Representation before the General Court of the European Union (EGC) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
- Coordination of foreign correspondent attorneys in proceedings before foreign national offices
- Out-of-court settlement
Economic utilization
- Licensing
- Purchase and transfer of designs/community designs
Enforcement of design rights
- Warning of design/common design infringements
- Defense against cease-and-desist letters for design/common design infringement
- Enforcement of design/community design claims in preliminary injunction proceedings (including injunction, sequestration/seizure), in particular at trade fairs
- Sequestration/seizure of infringing objects by means of a temporary injunction in cooperation with bailiffs
- Enforcement of design/community design claims in legal proceedings (including injunction, information, destruction, recall, damages)
- Defense against threatened and issued preliminary injunctions, in particular filing of protective letters, filing of objections, advice on internal company measures, recalls and customer communication, submission of final declarations
- Representation in preliminary injunction and lawsuit proceedings before all German civil courts
- Border seizure procedures to protect against the import of design-infringing products into the EU and Germany
- Criminal charges for design/common design infringements