Trademark law
In trademark law, the firm's expertise covers the following activities and areas of advice in particular:
Advice and registration
- Advice on the development of brands and brand strategies
- Collision and availability searches in the run-up to a trademark application
- Trademark applications (Germany, EU, international trademarks)
- Brand extensions
- Representation in registration, opposition, waiver, revocation, nullity and appeal 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 trademark offices
- Out-of-court settlement through priority and delimitation agreements
- Advice on trademark law risks in connection with the parallel import of medicinal products
Economic utilization
- Licensing
- Purchase and transfer of brands
Enforcement of trademark rights
- Warning of trademark infringements
- Defense against warning letters for trademark infringement
- Enforcement of trademark 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 trademark 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 trademark-infringing products into the EU and Germany
- Criminal charges for trademark infringements