Patent & Legal
The most innovative companies in the world register more than 230,000 patents a year in Germany and Europe in order to protect their inventions and at the same time promote research. You will be supported by your specialized patent attorney with his technical expertise and existing legal knowledge. A patent lawyer penetrates the inventions in detail in order to generate valuable property rights. In addition, he develops optimal strategies for companies with regard to their product portfolio.
White ip | Patent & Legal advises you on all kinds of intellectual property matters on both a national as well as an international scale, as we represent clients in Germany, Europe, China, and the United States.
A state institution not only checks for formal deficiencies, but above all checks for criteria relating to patentability. This grant is made in accordance with the provisions of the Patent Act. Increasingly higher bureaucratic standards are being applied to the granting and thus ultimately to the creation of patents. If you have the support of a patent attorney during this process, this can significantly professionalize the path to the patent application.
In addition, further property rights are available to protect your intangible assets.
Our experts will help you find the right IP strategy and advise you on the comprehensive protection of your inventions and trade secrets.
As an authorized patent attorney before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), we protect your ideas as patents, trademarks, designs and utility models and take care of the bureaucratic processes such as searches, applications, protection and enforcement of your intellectual property rights. Your interests and the success of your project are our guiding principles.
The team of specialists and attorneys at white ip | Patent & Legal always works with the highest professional quality for your goals and concerns.
For us, legal advice is more than just a legal service. Our many years of professional experience and technical perspective have taught us one thing: we can relieve you of the time-consuming grappling with bureaucratic and legal issues and, in cooperation with you, create a property rights strategy around your idea and invention, then you can concentrate fully on its implementation. We see ourselves as your patent attorney and trademark attorney.
Our commercial law firm provides legal protection for your business transactions, contracts and personnel matters.
Work in a resource-efficient manner and let all your creativity and energy flow into your project while we take care of the rest. We are here for you.
However, we do not see ourselves solely as a purely legal service provider, but would like to be at your side as a trustworthy companion, creative impulse giver and all-round supporter from the start, so that you can concentrate fully on your strengths. This is the only way to get advice that meets your needs. This is why we make our interdisciplinary network of experts and specialists, who have been with us for years, available to you. In this way, you can provide your project with additional impulses if necessary through the knowledge and experience of many specialists and make your project even more promising. Through the holistic support of your project by at least two experts and quality assurance through an interdisciplinary network, we bring you the success your project deserves.
As patent attorneys actively working in patent law, we offer patent prosecutions, patent search, and representation in patent infringement cases.
As a trademark attorney active in trademark law, we carry out your trademark search, file the necessary trademark application and represent you in trademark disputes.
Products from different companies often show a distinct similarity in their functionality, rendering the external appearance the more important as it is the only way for consumers to distinguish between different products.
Often referred to as the little brother of a patent, are utility models industrial property rights for technical inventions.
The vast majority of technological inventions originate from the research departments of industrial companies.
Free competition is an economic achievement that is of particular importance in the context of a functioning social market economy. Different companies are in economic competition with one another.
The attorneys at white ip | Patent und Legal advise start-ups and companies in all areas of corporate law, from company formation to liquidation.
With the beginning of the digital age, the question of copyright has been the subject of massive impairments both in economic terms and in terms of personal rights.
Contracts form the foundation for entrepreneurial activities. The individual and legally flawless preparation of contracts, which we provide for you, is the central way to prevent legal disputes.
Software-related inventions have become indispensable in large parts of technology in the age of digitization. However, programs for the so-called data processing system are explicitly excluded from patent protection by law. Of course, software (so-called computer-implemented inventions) can still be patented in certain cases. The patentability of software is therefore a very complex issue that requires the greatest care in practice.
From the conclusion of a legally compliant, up-to-date employment contract to the ongoing coordination of measures in the employment relationship and support during the termination process: In many cases, close cooperation with a specialist employment lawyer can help to avoid disputes.
Human beings are constantly trying to find new ways to communicate, from cave paintings to letterpress printings to the development of radio and television.
You build the future. We create the framework.