Service offering - Trimborn Law

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

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

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

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

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