Among the broad range of consultation services offered by our IP team, it is the patent law involving the representation of clients in national and international litigation as well as the trademark law involving comprehensive consultation on setting up and defending international trademark portfolios that take centre stage. In addition, we advise international industrial companies on the German Drug Advertising Act as well as on general advertising laws. We also specialise in press laws and the right of free speech, in copyright and media law, in employee inventions law, in the health care sector as well as in life sciences. The lawyers in our group are members of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht/GRUR), the International Trademark Association (INTA) and other associations of specialists in intellectual property