Trademarks and other marks make the products and services provided by companies stand out. We look after trademarks throughout their entire life – from creation to registration, from defence to enforcement against infringers.

Our primary focus is the management and maintenance of worldwide trademark portfolios covering a multitude of industries. In this field we can count on the support of a vast network of hand-picked correspondence firms. We defend these portfolios in opposition and cancellation proceedings and protect them from being watered down. We persistently pursue infringers through national as well as international infringement proceedings. Whenever we come across product counterfeiting, we enforce border seizures on behalf of our clients. We design and draw up licensing agreements and organise change of ownership, be it in the form of an IP deal or through M&A transactions.

The lawyers within our practice group also work as lecturers at various universities and are engaged in national and international associations such as the International Trademark Association (INTA).

• Trademark infringement disputes, trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings
• Fighting against trademark counterfeiting, border seizures
• Strategic design and management of worldwide trademark portfolios
• Establishment of distribution systems
• Transaction advice including due diligence
• Domain disputes including UDRP proceedings
• Defence and enforcement of company trademarks and work titles