Experience and innovation are the driving forces behind this law office, founded over 70 years ago. At ABITZ, experienced patent attorneys work hand in hand with young graduates. Every attorney at ABITZ has a degree in natural sciences, and this, combined with specialist legal training, forms the basis for a dedicated, expert service. 

protects your ideas. In a rapidly changing world, intangible assets such as patents, trademarks and designs have come to be among the most important assets of many companies. Albihns' operations are aimed at creating the best possible protection for these. In short, we work to strengthen our customers' position in the market. 

is a well-respected firm of patent attorneys, which in the course of more than fifty years' involvement in the field of industrial property protection has gained a high reputation. From our base in Essen, we cater for national and international clients with a wide variety of technical specialisations in the realm of industrial property protection. Our consultancy operation covers patent law, utility model law, trademark law and design law and includes, for example, the formulation of licence agreements, including with due regard to cartel law issues. 

is a law firm specialized in intellectual property law.  ABK has an office located in Ottobrunn by Munich and an office located in in the Innovations- und Gründerzentrum Biotechnologie (IZB) in Martinsried by Munich. Both offices are in the neighbourhood of the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), and the Federal German Patent Court (FGPC). ABK was founded in June 2003 by the Chemist Dr.Hans-Lothar Arth and the Engineer Ralf Bucher.

BARDEHLE PAGENBERG 
We are one of the largest Intellectual Property law firms in Europe with offices in Germany, France and Spain. Our firm offers the full range of services in the fields of patents, trademarks, designs, copyright and unfair competition law. Our teams of highly specialized professionals provide dedicated support in procuring, safeguarding and enforcing the IP rights - often the most valuable assets - of a high profile international clientele. 

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was founded in 1999 as a partnership of European Patent Attorneys ready to support creative companies to meet the challenges of a future hallmarked by unabated competition.  With state of the art technological skills and, in securing protection for industrial and commercial property rights, relying on expertise already successfully applied in the past, we are in a position to assist you in finding the ideal protection rights strategies in Europe. The firm´s aim is to provide comprehensive legal service and advice in all matters connected ...

 is an intellectual property law firm including German and European patent and trademark attorneys as well as Attorneys-at-Law having wide experience in the prosecution and litigation of patents, utility models, trademarks, design protection and correlating legal domains including copyright, internet and software related areas. Our intellectual property law firm attends both to German as well as foreign enterprises, combines, groups, and individual inventors in all fields of technology, mainly in telecommunications, biotechnology, electrical engineering, ...

is a law firm providing comprehensive legal services in IP- and IT-related matters to high technology companies of national and international prominence. The integrated cooperation of both Patent Attorneys and Attorneys at Law with technical degrees and substantial experience and practice in technical related matters enables us to provide sophisticated advice in all areas which need a combination of technical and legal expertise.

 A patent gives the patent holder the exclusive exploitation right including a prohibitive right. Only the patent holder can commercially exploit the patented invention, so that he can prohibit third parties from manufacturing, advertising, marketing and using or even owning or applying the patent procedure as well as of the object obtained by it.

BLCH  
is a young patent attorney office which offers you professional and competent consultancy in intellectual property. In addition to the classic chemistry areas like organic and inorganic chemistry as well as polymer chemistry, the office possesses specific know-how in the new fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology which keep gaining major importance. Our office specialises in enforcing, defending and maintaining your patents, utility models, trade marks and designs. In addition, we can provide professional advice on the drafting of licence or cooperation agreements. 

 aside from the classic natural and engineering sciences, are also well versed in the younger and increasingly important areas of biochemistry, semiconductor and software technology, among others. Their fields of practice are in the prosecution, defence, and enforcement of patents, utility models and design models as well as consulting with clients in drafting and completing license and cooperation agreements. 

is an association of patent attorneys and attorneys at law with its business location in Düsseldorf, acting on all matters of intellectual property. The close and team-orientated co-operation of patent attorneys and attorneys at law guarantees our clients from the fields of research and industry a competent and extensive consultancy in matters of national and international patent and utility model law, of design protection law, trademark law and copyright law.

CANZLER & BERGMEIER 
The patent law firm CANZLER & BERGMEIER was founded in 1996 by Rolf Canzler and Werner Bergmeier in Ingolstadt, just 80 km from Munich, the capital of intellectual property law in Europe. It has grown into a thriving firm with five patent attorneys and patent engineers backed by an expert support staff of eight. Our firm takes pride in its efficient handling of the largest projects in Germany, Europe and overseas.

CBDL Patentanwälte 
focus on Patent law, Trademark law and Design law. We work in cooperation with Cabinet Beau de Loménie. We represent and consult our clients for safeguarding company assets like Patents, Know-How, Software, Trademarks and Designs. With this mission we represent our clients directly before the patent and trademark offices of Germany, France and the UK, the European Patent Office and the Community's Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market.

Following a lifelong passion for innovative technical solutions and some kind of family tradition - my father has also been a Patent Attorney - I founded my own patent law firm in 1999 in Nuremberg after being registered as a Patent and Trademark attorney in 1997. As a co-owner of a medium-size family company (350 employees) in the field of high-precision ball bearings, machine-spindles, opto-spindles, sprag type clutches and non-contact seals I was well aware of the need for high-quality national and international intellectual property services customized to the specific requirements of each client at affordable cost. 

 was established in 1954 by patent attorneys Werner Cohausz (†1995) and Wilhelm Florack (†1974) in Düsseldorf. The origins go back to a firm managed by Werner Cohausz in the thirties in Berlin. Given the industrial structure of the adjoining Ruhr area at that time, COHAUSZ & FLORACK initially provided legal consultancy services primarily to enterprises in the field of heavy industry. Soon, undertakings in other lines of business such as railway and motor vehicle construction, agricultural engineering and textile machine construction joined the firm's clientele.

df-mp practices intellectual property law with an emphasis on the protection and enforcement of high-technology inventions. Particularly strong practice areas concern the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemistry, polymer technology, telecommunications, computer hardware and software and medical devices. 

DIPL PHYS DR. JURGEN BECKMANN
When do you need a patent attorney ... ?The application for a patent, a trademark or other protective rights at the German Patent- and Trademark Office (DPMA), the European Patent Office (EPA) or the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) can in principal be made by the applicant himself. Exception: applicants with place of residence and/or business abroad with respect to the individual office, e.g. non-Germans Anmeldetag the German Patent- and Trademark Office. 

DR. GASSNER & PARTINER
Preparation and filing of patent applications, utility model applications, trademark and design applications as well as applications for rights protecting plant varieties and topographies. Representation in proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), European Patent Office (EPO) European Trade Mark Office (OHIM) German Federal Patent Court (BpatG) German Federal Supreme Court (BGH; in revocation proceedings) ..

DREISS, FUHLENDORF, STEIMLE & BECKER
most of the Patent Attorneys hold the titles German Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and European Trademark Attorney and are therefore recognized by the German Patent Office and authorised agents before the European Patent Office in Munich and the Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) for the European Union in Alicante, Spain. The attorneys are members of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer) ...

Dr. Pätzold 
where you can find information online regarding intellectual property which may be helpful for you. To navigate our virtual office, please use the links presented on top of each room. Detailed access to each page is presented on the right column. For [contact], please mail to Dr. Pätzold or use our detailed address information. Please enjoy your visit of our virtual office.

DTS Law Firm
DTS is an international association of patent-attorneys and attorneys-at-law with offices in Munich, Grenoble, Hamburg, Bologna and Zurich. We offer our clients individually-tailored and specialized legal advice of exacting professional competence. DTS assists with the development of internal business strategies, the drawing up of contracts and the enforcement of contractual claims and other rights.

Effert, Bressel und Kollegen
Our consultation and representation activities relate to the fields of: Patents ,Utility models ,Topographics (Solid-state circuitry layout) ,Data Processing Programs ,Inventions of Employees ,Unprotected Inventions and other Achievements Benefitting the Technology ,Trade Marks, Identification Marks of Enterprises, work marks ,Industrial Designs ,Register of plant varieties and unprotected improvements benefitting the plant farming in the field of plant variety.

EISENFUHR, SPEISER & PARTNER
One of the leading IP law firms in Germany serving domestic and foreign clients in all areas of intellectual property. Our mission is to provide legal services in all IP matters to small firms, large companies and law firms worldwide. The paramount goal in all our work is to deliver excellent consultancy and representation specifically geared to the business needs of our clients.

FLÜGEL PREISSNER KASTEL SCHOBER
The philosophy of our firm is to provide the advice and services that our clients need for the successful protection of their industrial and intellectual property. In addition to our technical and legal competence, we can also draw on a great many years of experience in the intellectual property field, at both a national and an international level, which makes it possible to find solutions to most complex matters in a precise and efficient way. 

A modern business must safeguard its innovations and its good name against illegal exploitation. Technical inventions can be protected by patents and utility models. In addition, proprietary know-how must be protected. We can advise you on such matters.

FROHWITTER 
Welcome to the Website of Frohwitter Intellectual Property Counselors. From our Munich-based firm we are pleased to offer intellectual property-related services on a global scale. We offer to all our clients individual advice and solutions. We take personal pride in the quality of our work and our attention to detail. We look forward to hearing from you.

GILLE-HRABAL-STRUCK-HEIDLEIN-PROP-ROOS
The practice was founded in Düsseldorf in 1950 by Patent Attorney Dr. Franz Redies. Today, Gille, Hrabal, Struck, Neidlein, Prop & Roos, with its other patent attorneys, is one of the larger patent attorney offices in Düsseldorf, which is the city in Germany where the most patent infringement procedures in Europe are handled. The office is situated near Schloss Benrath, which is one of the most important palace buildings of the late Rococo period. 

GRUNECKER, KINKELDEY, STOCKMAIR & SCHWANHAUSSER
is a law firm specializing in German and European intellectual property matters including patent, trademark, design, licensing, copyright and unfair competition law. The firm has longstanding experience in the prosecution of IP rights as well as in litigation matters. More than 50 attorneys in four offices located in Germany assist our clients in all intellectual property related fields over a wide range of science and technology...

HARWARDT NEUMANN
Getting ahead of the competition is usually the result of creative achievement, consistent development, carefully considered investment and clever marketing. However, a lead like that may be short-lived if not secured in the long term by taking the right legal steps at the right time. Our aim is to help our clients to build on their lead and defend it, regardless of whether they manufacture or market products or offer services. To achieve this, we support our clients in building up "Intellectual Property" as a business asset and in protecting, defending and marketing it. 

HASELTINE LAKE 
A major European IP Practice, providing Intellectual Property services to clients throughout the world. Intellectual Property is important to our clients. They demand highly-focused top quality IP advice across a wide spectrum of industries and issues. So that's what we deliver - with energy, enthusiasm and commitment - because Intellectual Property is important to us too. 

HOEFER & PARTNERS
Founded in Bielefeld in 1920 by patent attorney Ernst Haigis, our firm has a long-standing tradition of representation in the field of intellectual property. As Ernst Haigis' successor, patent attorney Theodor Hoefer led this reputed firm into the 1960s and skilfully engineered its expanding activities.  After merging with the Munich firm of Schmitz and Dr. Weber, the main office of the firm moved to Bavaria, where some years ago, patent attorneys Hager, Schaeberle and Goerz joined our team. In the year 2003 the firm of Patent Attorney Dr. Schmidt merged with Hoefer and Partners. 

Hoffmann · EITLE
is one of the oldest and largest European intellectual property law firms, with offices both in Munich and London, the two centers for patent law in Europe. The firm has more than forty German patent attorneys, British patent attorneys, European trademark attorneys and European patent attorneys, all of whom have a broad basis of experience in their individual field, covering the entire range of technology. The firm further includes nine attorneys-at-law specialized in intellectual property. Hoffmann · Eitle focuses on prosecution and litigation of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. 

HOFSTETTER, SCHURACK & SKORA
The predecessor of the law firm as it exists today was founded in 1962. Since the year 2000 the law firm has been professionally active under the name of "HOFSTETTER, SCHURACK & SKORA". The two branches of the office are situated in Munich and Cologne.

is a firm of patent attorneys with offices in Stuttgart and Munich. The firm acts for numerous national and international clients, ranging in size from individual inventors to large multinational corporations.

MUNICH - PAENT 
We place great emphasis on personal and individual consultancy with our clients and work on all matters in the field of Industrial Property, especially:  Patents: Preparing, filing and prosecuting German, European and International patent applications, national parts of European patents and national as well as regional parts of International applications, German utility models ...

IP-GOTZ
For our clients with residence in northern bavaria (small and medium sized enterprises, companies, private inventors) we are directly in reach for personal special discussions in our offices in Nürnberg and Würzburg. With the office location in Nürnberg we have a locally close access to the public library of the LGA Nürnberg (second largest one in Germany) as well as to the specialised patent and trademark division of the district court Nürnberg-Fürth (exclusive jurisdiction of northern bavaria). The university town Würzburg offers a location in the middle of Germany  ...

specializes in obtaining and maintaining,Patent Protection ,Utility Model Protection, Trademark Protection and Protection of Industrial Designs in Europe and Germany. In technical matters the firm members specialize in a variety of disciplines including: electronic circuitry, semiconductor technology, semiconductor processing and packaging, computer architecture, software, data processing and communication, network technology, space and navigation technology,... 

Our firm counsels clients with regard to intellectual property matters. This includes extensive support in attaining, assertion and defending intellectual property rights, especially patents,trademarks and designs. From initial consultation to managing your global IP portfolio we like to be at your disposal.

KEIL & SCHAAFHAUSEN
The roots of our office go back to the initial days of industrial property in Germany. The first German trademark law came into force in 1894. In the same year trademark No 46, which is still administered by our office, was registered. Since 1981 our name has been KEIL & SCHAAFHAUSEN; today we are one of the leading patent attorney firms in Germany.

has been established in 2002, resulting from a reorganisation of the law firm Spitz, Klinger & Partner GbR that has been already established in 1995. Together, the law firm’s attorneys, patent attorneys, tax consultants and certified accountants form a team of experts that is specialized in national and international intellectual property law as well as commercial and corporate law and is supported by a staff with many years of professional experience. 

KONIG - SZYNKA - VON RENESSE 
Particular areas of expertise are:  the preparation, filing and prosecution of German, European and Internationalapplications and registrations ,the defence of intellectual property rights against attack by third parties. the provision of expert opinions on validity and infringement. contesting intellectual property rights of third parties, in particular by opposition, nullity and cancellation proceedings. the enforcement of intellectual property rights against infringers, both by Court proceedings and through out-of-court...

KRAUS&WEISERT
We are your competent partners in every major field of technology. Our patent attorneys are chemists, biochemists, biologists, physicists and engineers. They have comprehensive knowledge in the fields in which they specialize – and form a know-how pool with professional cooperation between disciplines. Our expertise guarantees rapid, reliable understanding of our clients’ problems and optimum utilisation of the potential inherent in their inventions. The competence available in our office is well-coordinated ...

offers extensive and professional legal consultation and support in all areas of intellectual property rights. Consultation begins with selective searches and analysis of the search results prior to a planned property right application, e.g. for prior art in the case of patent applications and for older rights to signs (such as trademarks, firm names, domain names) in the case of trademark applications. The next step is to prepare and file the property right application, e.g. draft and file a European patent application or  ...

MICHAEL HORAK, LL.M.
Intellectual Property Rights (IP rights): patents, registered designs, utility models, trademarks, semiconductor topographies, plant varieties, as well as copyright and know-how. Technology law (online law, telecommunications law, etc.) or for instance computer law as such are not self-contained areas of law, nonetheless the technical aspects of these fields demand for special legal attention. Advertising law (law on competition, regulation on discounts (repealed), regulation on free gifts (repealed), regulation on price...

We offer legal services and legal assistance in Intellectual Property matters, including patents, trademarks, designs, licensing, unfair competition and antitrust law, copyright, IT and software law, e-commerce, telecommunications and related matters. 

Patent Attorney Peter Roos, Germany
Peter Roos provides professional advice as a patent attorney in the field of intellectual property law. Peter Roos primarily counsels and represents clients interested in obtaining, defending, maintaining and contesting intellectual property (IP) rights such as utility patents and utility models, trademarks, and design patents. This also includes consultation services during the conclusion of licensing agreements or sales contracts involving this type of property right, e.g. a patent license agreement. 

Our Firm offers a full service in intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, designs, computer and computer-related technology, licensing, and related litigation. On the following sites you will find information concerning the intellectual property scene in Europe and Germany. The site IP-Rights offers a general overview about the different types of applications. The sites technical inventions (patents and utility models), design models, names and marks (trade marks and names of legal persons) offer you detailed information about the concerned matter. If you would like to get some information about our firm and their members, please choose the site "about us".