Trademarks, company names, domains, and other designation
Trademarks, company names, domains, and other designation
Your brands and company name reflect your core commercial identity and essential means of communication when stepping out into the business world offering and providing your products and services. And here is where legal expertise comes in handy, namely, supporting you in the process of creating, protecting, surveilling, extending, and managing your brands. This allows you to focus on your core business, leading to YOUR success.
Particularly, by providing you with the following services:
- Availability searches (FTO) for all types of brands (words, logos, slogans, Domains, shapes, including 3-D signs, sound marks, and more)
- Jointly setting up filing strategies, and drafting specifications of list of goods and services for your marks tailored to your business
- Searches on registrability, particularly on distinctive character
- Filing Protective Brief in anticipation of potential request for preliminary injunction
- Trademark filings worldwide, including extensions and renewals (prosecution), EU and International Registrations
- Domain registrations and UDRP – dispute proceedings and before the courts
- Portfolio management worldwide
- Support on trademark use requirements and setting up in-house archives for trademark use material
- Requirements for well-known and famous marks
- Trademark watch services worldwide
- Trademark opposition, cancellation, and nullity actions on all grounds available and at all levels before all competent Offices and Courts throughout Germany, before the EU-Trademark Office (EUIPO), and before the European Court of Justice (ECJ)
- Litigation before all competent courts in Germany up to the Federal Supreme Court (BGH), as well as handling cross-border enforcement of EU marks, and defense, with a network of highly experienced local litigators
- Custom seizure proceedings, in Germany and for the entire EU
- Negotiating settlements, demarcation and prior rights agreements, license agreements, and assignments
Providing legal training and seminars at your business, and in-house consulting for your portfolio management, all designed to address your specific needs and requirements.