Non-registered IP rights, Copy right, Unfair competition
Non-registered IP rights, Copy right, Unfair competition
Often in times, and for whatever reason, your valuable commercial assets in use are not (yet) subject to registered IP rights. Such assets may be your product brands, company names, Know-How, technical drawings, trade dress, logos, slogans and other complex advertisement materials and campaigns, webshop designs, business secrets, a song, score of music, software programs, and much, much more. Here, German and EU laws provide an impressive “bouquet of flowers” of essential rights for protecting, enforcing, and commercializing your assets. All you seek is legal expertise for picking the “right flower(s)”.
Particularly, by providing you with the following services:
- Determining the legal nature and scope of your IP asset
- Setting up strategies for best protection, inter alia, by seeking registered IP rights still available
- Drafting warning letters and cease-and-desist declarations
- Conducting due diligence and FTO searches in connection with use, purchase, or assignment of non-registered IP assets
- Filing Protective Brief in anticipation of potential request for preliminary injunction
- Litigation before all competent courts in Germany up to the Federal Supreme Court (BGH), as well as handling cross-border enforcement
- Negotiating settlements, license agreements, and assignments
- Drafting comprehensive exploitation contracts and negotiating remuneration agreements under §§ 32 and 32 a German Copy right Act
- Special advice on consumer, engineering, Startup, medical and pharmaceutical brands
- Evaluating advertisement, slogans, and other product related statements for its possible misleading and disparaging content