• Advice and research prior to the filing of a trade mark application
• Filing applications for German trade marks, EU trade marks, International Registrations and national trade marks in other countries
• Conducting and supporting active and passive opposition and cancellation proceedings
• Managing and representing national and international trade mark portfolios
• Defending against trade mark attacks
• Extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of rights in the case of trade mark infringements
• Drafting and negotiating contracts in relation to trade mark rights (e.g. licensing, co-operation and co-existence agreements)
• Monitoring of trade mark conflicts (“watch service”)
• Creation of regulations governing certification marks as well as licensing agreements for certification trademarks

• Enforcement and defence of rights in court
• Development of and support for rightholders’ content protection programs
• Strategic advice and preparation of legal opinions
• Legal action against intermediaries (website blocking, hosting provider liability, liability of advertising service providers and of other technical service providers)
• Defending companies against unwarranted claims for equitable remuneration (Sec. 32 German Copyright Act) and additional participation (Sec. 32a German Copyright Act)
• Comprehensive and strategic combatting of piracy, including advice on criminal law and prosecution
• Advice and guidance on the acquisition and exploitation of rights
• Development of licensing strategies
• Legal consultation with respect to legislation
• In-house training

Due to our consulting and research activities in this field since 2020, we have very comprehensive expertise.

• Legal advice on software protection matters
• Legal support in outsourcing projects and the introduction of new software technologies in your company
• Preparation and negotiation of IT contracts of all types (for example software licensing and project agreements, software maintenance and support agreements), on the basis of the waterfall model, agile programming methods or DevOps
• Representation in judicial proceedings regarding IT law matters
• Comprehensive contract management, including contract risk assessment, with the help of a software tool developed by us
• Advice (including technical advice) on issues regarding the use of open source software
• Advice on setting up internal processes for open source compliance
• In-house training for companies on IT law topics

• Freedom to Operate (FTO) analysis from a competition law perspective
• Advice on advertising measures
• Defence in the case of formal legal notices
• Advice and enforcement of rights in the case of competition law violations, for example product imitations
• Litigating test cases, in particular in relation to violations of the rules of market conduct
• Advice in the area where competition law and public law intersect

• Advice and legal support in the development of new design concepts
• Freedom to Operate analysis
• Development of rights protection strategies for Germany, the European Union and worldwide
• National and international registration of designs
• Monitoring of portfolios of rights
• Reviewing competitors’ design applications in terms of their legal validity
• Drafting of licensing and design transfer agreements
• Enforcing your intellectual property rights against third-party rights infringements in and out of court
• Defence against attacks based on design rights

• Legal and strategic advice on licensing projects
• Design and implementation of licensing agreements
• Preparation of co-operation, research and development contracts
• Enforcement of and defence against claims based on licensing agreements

• Assessment of planned titles and publication of title protection notices
• Preparing publishing contracts
• Advice and representation in the acquisition of rights
• Support in concluding licensing and agency contracts
• Legal advice on the distribution of e-books or apps
• Extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of copyright exploitation rights
• Advice in the area of media antitrust law

• Advice on German and European antitrust law, in particular on matters concerning the prohibition of restrictive practices and abusive practices of companies with strong market positions
• Antitrust law assessment of collaborations which have a competition law relevance
• Review of licensing agreements and distribution agreements from an antitrust law perspective
• Legal preparation and support of selective distribution systems and franchise contract systems
• Advice and guidance on research and development projects (R&D)
• Media antitrust law
• Judicial enforcement of antitrust law claims
• Antitrust complaints before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission

• Advice on advertising and marketing measures and on the use of third party personal data from a data protection law perspective
• Preparing privacy policies, data protection notices and declarations of consent
• Reviewing and devising data protection contracts and clauses in contractual documents
• Advice on the transfer of data to non-EU countries
• In-house training for companies on data protection law topics
• Providing legal advice to publishers on media-related exemptions under data protection law

• Legal advice and the preparation of expert opinions on all questions in relation to non-personal data
• Legal assessment of internal company measures for data generation
• Drafting of contracts for the processing, transfer and exchange of data
• Legal enforcement of claims against the unlawful use of your data

• Judicial and extrajudicial enforcement of patents and utility models against infringements by third parties, including the conduct of so-called inspection proceedings according to the Düsseldorf Practice for the determination of evidence
• Defense against patent and utility model infringement suits
• Legal and strategic advice on licensing of technical knowledge
• Drafting, negotiation and preparation of license, cooperation and research and development agreements
• Procurement of suitable and recognized patent attorneys for questions concerning the registration of patents or utility models

• Assessing whether an invention or development of an improvement constitutes an employee invention
• Legal support in the reporting or claiming of an employee invention
• Reviewing the due and proper transfer of rights in inventions and any existing need for action (e.g. filing an application in another country)
• Preparing manageable and legally secure remuneration rules for your company
• Legal representation in disputes regarding rights and obligations under the German Employee Invention Act

• Pre-trial advice and judicial representation of media companies in all matters related to press law or rights of personality
• Assertion of claims for information under press law against companies or state institutions
• Legal proofing of press products
• In-house training
• Legal advice in relation to infringements of rights of personality
• Extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of the right of reply and claims for injunctive relief, rectification, damages or financial compensation

• Legal advice when selecting the domain name
• Development of an effective domain strategy for your company
• Registering domains
• Managing your domain portfolio
• Drafting and reviewing licensing agreements
• Enforcing licensing agreements
• Conducting UDRP proceedings
• Enforcing your intellectual property rights in the courts up to and including the transfer of the domain name

• Drafting and revising non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
• Support with the documentation and categorisation of trade secrets
• Drafting concepts for the protection of trade secrets (“appropriate confidentiality measures”/“reasonable steps”)
• Evaluation of concepts for the protection of trade secrets
• Implementation of, support in and documentation of compliance measures
• Enforcement of trade secrets through the courts
• Advice in whistleblower cases

• Legal advice in the design and labelling of packaging and package inserts
• Legal assessment of advertising measures
• Registration of trade marks, utility models and designs
• Drafting of licensing agreements
• Judicial and extrajudicial action in the event of violations of competition law

• Legal support in the scope of product development
• Preparation of distribution contracts for manufacturers, importers and retailers of foodstuffs
• Checking compliance with labelling obligations
• Legal assessment of advertising measures
• Legal advice regarding the online distribution of foodstuffs