After more than 1,000 court cases that we have fought as attorneys in the field of intellectual property law, many factual constellations are familiar to us from our own practical experience and therefore do not need to be explained at length.
As highly specialized mediators, we focus on proceedings in the fields of intellectual property (trademark law, patent law, copyright law, design law), media law and competition law. We are not only capable of routinely resolving classic cases, but also of comprehending complex and legally difficult issues in depth.
In our function as mediators, we regularly work with individuals and companies from a wide range of fields and industries, from artists to industrial companies, as well as with their advisors – e.g. lawyers, patent attorneys, tax consultants and management consultants.
Specialized in intellectual property proceedings
Examples of conciliation procedures
- Competition disputes, e.g. disputes for misleading advertising or comparative advertising, disparagement, lead by breach of law or counterfeit competition.
- Disputes between the author and the exploiter, e.g. over license claims by the author or the question of whether a form of use by the exploiter is covered by the author’s permission.
- Disputes concerning property rights in connection with the reorganization of companies, such as the departure of shareholders.
- Patent disputes, as questions of legal status and infringement level can be concentrated here and thus dealt with cost-effectively.
- Circumstances in which the statute of limitations is to be suspended.
- Disputes between companies and distribution partners, this e.g. about property rights registered by the distribution partner or about the resale of the same or similar goods.
- Disputes between persons with the same name, e.g. over a (nearly) identical company name or over the fate of trademarks.
- Delimitation negotiations between confusable trademarks (here, the electronic or written procedure have proven to be particularly cost-efficient and effective).
- Disputes concerning the disclosure or unauthorized use of know-how, business or trade secrets, e.g. recipes, design drawings or address lists.
- Disputes arising out of or in connection with license agreements.
- Trademark disputes, e.g. disputes concerning the infringement of company names, trademark infringements or disputes concerning the ownership of rights in “grown structures” (e.g. in the case of companies with the same name, complicated company constellations).
