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YOUR CHALLENGES

Companies have a particular interest in protecting their business activities, developments and ideas – their so-called intellectual property. Corresponding protection options are based on competition law as well as copyright, trade mark, design and patent law. As an entrepreneur, you can determine the use of your intellectual property yourself and generally prohibit third parties from using it. Some prohibition rights arise automatically upon creation, while others only arise through application and entry in a register, e.g. at the respective trade mark offices. Strategic positioning is advisable here, both in the context of preserving secrets and with regard to protection through register applications.

OUR SOLUTIONS

Our experienced advisors at SNP protect your competitive edge with pragmatic and practical solutions. We help you to define which rights you should absolutely protect, advise you on all possible measures, support you with the necessary applications and registrations and assist you in building up your trademark portfolio as well as regularly reviewing your property rights strategy. This also includes an examination of your advertising media or those of your competitors. If the worst comes to the worst, we will defend you and, of course, represent you before offices and courts in Germany and abroad, e.g. the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, Alicante) or the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO, Geneva).

Six specialised lawyers, including three certified specialist in intellectual property law, will be pleased to advise you throughout Germany on all your specialist concerns / questions.

OUR SERVICES

Analysis, development and expansion, management, optimisation, defence and exploitation of your IP portfolio
Application and registration of industrial property rights such as trade marks, designs, utility models and patents in Germany and abroad as well as the management of these rights
Development and support of brand protection management
Extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of industrial property rights
Drafting and negotiating licence agreements
Defence against third-party claims
Advice on all patent and utility model matters
Advice on all copyright and media law matters
Advice on all trade mark and design law matters
Advice on competition and advertising law (UWG)
IT law (in- and outsourcing; shop audits, software implementation)
Advice on combating trade mark and product piracy
Data protection (auditing, register of procedures, position of external data protection officer)
Advice on all press and media law matters, including the enforcement of and defence against counterstatement, injunction, correction and compensation claims
IP law issues in transactions