There are industrial property lawsuits you know you cannot win. And there are patent applications that do not justify the effort. It is our responsibility to give our clients open and honest advice in this regard and to find effective solutions.
Our services in the fields of industrial property
Our clients can always feel assured and supported regarding all concerns of industrial property
When it comes to the protection of industrial property, we are alternately consultants, representatives, agents, advocates, experts, administrators … And often we are everything at once.
At any rate, with Louis · Pöhlau · Lohrentz innovative enterprises that want to maximize the utilization of their industrial property rights without infringing on those of a third party have a partner by their side whose commitment and competence go far beyond the mere application and enforcement of patents, utility models, designs, and trademarks. We also represent our clients in judicial and extrajudicial cases. We analyze, develop, and manage proprietary patent and trademark portfolios. And we provide advice for technology and market strategists who want to ensure that they do not infringe upon third party industrial property rights when developing or launching a new product.
With our comprehensive consulting services we do not only support our clients in positioning their products in the relevant markets, fending off competitors, and securing investment in technical developments, trademarks, or designs. We also aid our clients in complex and laborious procedures in protecting industrial property rights, such as employee inventions. We cannot decide for a client which action and which patent to file, but we thoroughly research the opportunities and risks to provide predictive and responsible advice. For us, tailored legal protection always implies pragmatic and efficient legal protection: neither spare nor waste any measures.
Our services
Our team covers the following IP services:
- Application of property rights
- Opposition and cancellation proceedings, actions for cancellation and nullity in patent, utility model, trademark and design cases
- Patent, utility model, and design cases
- Litigation in patent, utility model, trademark, and design cases
- Other litigation in connection with industrial property rights
- Preparing legal opinions
- Due diligence
- Contract and licensing law
- Employee inventor law
- Research and monitoring of industrial property rights
- Setup and management of international patent and trademark portfolios, analysis of the clients’ patent and trademark portfolio, analysis of the competitors’ patent and trademark portfolio
- Development of strategies in the field of industrial property rights
- Advice prior to product and market-strategic decisions
- Advice prior to product launches
- Freedom to operate (FTO) analyses
- Organization and management of employee inventions for enterprises
Our licenses
Our attorneys offer representation for your cases before the following institutions:
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- European Union Intellectual Property Office (EU Trade Marks and Designs) (EUIPO)
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA)
- Federal Patent Court (BPatG)
- Regional courts, higher regional courts
- Federal Court of Justice (BGH)
- General Court (European Union)
- European Court of Justice