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Inventions

  • Purchase of rights and compensation systems for international groups and medium-sized enterprises
  • Calculation and agreement of compensation
  • Agreements with managing directors, partners, cooperation partners, universities, trainees/students etc.
  • Co-inventor’s issues
  • Proceedings before boards of arbitration and courts; expert for courts in Germany and abroad; arbitrator
  • Patent assignments/proceedings for assignment
  • Check-list for employees’ inventions; in-house trainings
  • Handling of outsourced invention policies

Patents

  • Preparatory preservation of evidence; expedited and cross-border legal protection; protective letters
  • Warning letters; active and defensive litigation; infringement, nullity, opposition
  • Liability in the supply chain; precautionary measures
  • Injunctive relief, damages, information/rendering of accounts, destruction
  • Freedom-to-Operate (FtO) expert opinions
  • Technology transfer; licenses, assignments; due diligence
  • Monetary assessment of patents

Trademarks, logos & designs

  • Strategic trademark development and building of an international portfolio
  • Search, administration, monitoring, application, enforcement
  • Well-known trademarks, co-conception of opinion polls (Kinder I, II; ROCHER)
  • Multiple protection of three-dimensional goods (in particular consumer goods; proceedings: MIKADO, BOUNTY, Mars bar) by trademark, design and supplementary protection under competition law
  • Parts protection
  • Product piracy, customs action

Secrecy/Confidentiality

  • Preventive, actual and contractual protection vis-à-vis employees and contracting partners before, during and after the cooperation
  • Unilateral and multilateral confidentiality agreements;
  • Restrictive covenants; comprehensive IP clauses in employment contracts
  • Limitations of use and access
  • Preservation of evidence; search and seizure by the public prosecutor’s office

Advertising & competition

  • Admissibility of cross-border advertising and marketing campaigns, creative alternative solutions
  • Health-related advertising, drug advertising law
  • Comparative advertising; pirating
  • Franchising, sponsoring, merchandising

IP and Sales Agreements

  • F&E contracts according to current Block Exemption Regulation
  • Distribution agreements according to BER 330/2010
  • Cooperation agreements

 

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Prof. Dr. jur. Michael Trimborn

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Germany

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