Munich is known as the "patent capital" of Germany or even the whole Europe. The German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court as well as the European Patent Office are all located in Munich. Thus, Munich plays a very important role for international companies to develop their intellectual property rights strategy in Europe. Locating in Munich, our office can conveniently help our clients obtain various IP rights in Germany and Europe.

We help you to obtain especially the following IP rights:

1) European patents,

2) Community trademarks,

3) Community designs,

4) German utility models

5) German patents,

6) German designs, and

7) German trademarks and

8) other kinds of industrial IP rights.

Our patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law represent our clients for all kinds of IP rights applications before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (EU trademarks and designs).

Our services cover amongst others the following areas:

Elaborating application documents (e.g. patent descriptions, patent claims, application forms)

Translating application documents or priority documents

Filing applications or taking over the representation of applications

Paying official fees arising from the process of an application

Handling all kinds of official communications, e.g. replying to the examination reports

Observing all kinds of time limits

Paying renewal fees to maintain your IP rights