Intellectual Property Consulting

In our consulting service our focus is to paint a clear picture for our clients and to advise them regarding the current legal protection status of their intellectual property, products, services and technologies and the possible steps to strengthen or expand their protection in the European market.

Format of the consultation

After an initial familiarization with the details of the topic we assist our clients with detailed, multifaceted analysis placing the products, services or technologies and their potential protection approaches within the intellectual property protection landscape. We take extra care to identify legal protection strategies which are aligned with our clients’s business priorities.

Based on these business priorities and the details and history of the topic we advise our clients about the pros and cons and overall viability of various legal protection measures available within the European Union and the European Patent Convention.

During the course of the consultation service our office is in communication with the owner of the topic and intellectual property or with their authorized representatives, under mutual confidentiality.

Protection and publication history

In forming a recommendation from the standpoint of intellectual property law and regulations, it is necessary that for the consulting service our office be informed about all preceding national or international protections and publications relating to the product, service or technology. The history of the product, service or technology, e.g previous legal protections and publications, may impact the protection strategies available for the case in the present European market. Also, previous national or international protection can serve as the basis of an European extension of the protection.

In a general proceeding, an independent investigation of the past or present protection and publication history of the client”s product, service or technology is not part of the offered consulting service. Due to the inherent particularities of each topic, it is generally the responsibility of our clients to provide a proper insight for our office into the necessary details of their own product, service or technology.