VOSSIUS & PARTNER is qualified to answer all legal questions regarding the protection of intellectual property. Based on decades of experience, we can provide you with a comprehensive range of services, and we will proactively represent you before the patent offices and the courts as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
VOSSIUS & PARTNER's expertise encompasses the entire patent prosecution procedure, as well as the defense and enforcement of patents, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), utility models, trademarks, design patents, software and domain rights. We furthermore advise our clients with respect to drug approval law, data exclusivity, licensing and unfair competition matters, and we can look back on years of experience in infringement disputes both before German courts and in cross-border proceedings. We also offer expertise in the law on employees' inventions, including the calculation of inventor remuneration, as well as in the field of unfair competition. We provide legal opinions (e.g. freedom-to-operate or validity opinions), due diligence and all types of intellectual property searching and monitoring services.
We represent our clients in the prosecution and enforcement of patents, trademarks and design patents before the German Patent & Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante, Spain, the German Federal Office for Plant Varieties, the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Court of Justice. We handle infringement suits in Düsseldorf and throughout Germany before the competent courts of law, including the Higher Regional Courts and the German Federal Court of Justice. Our Munich location offers all the advantages of short distances and close contacts in Europe's patent capital.