Intellectual Property

We advise you when it comes to the development, marketing and sale of your products. We assist you in all matters concerning industrial property (in particular trademark and design law) as well as copyright and unfair competition law. Our services comprise the representation of our clients in out-of-court disputes, preliminary injunction proceedings, full-scale court lawsuits on the merits, proceedings before trademark offices, as well as practical and strategic advice and the negotiation and drafting of agreements. Our clients value our long-standing and wide-ranging expertise and our lasting success in trademark, design and unfair competition law disputes as well as in combatting product piracy.

We regularly advise on the IP-related topics of M&A transactions, including share deals, asset deals, and carve-outs. In particular, we cover IP matters as part of the legal due diligence during acquisitions and when preparing legal fact books during sales projects. In addition, we prepare and advise on the IP-related parts of the contract documentation.

Our firm and our attorneys are regularly recommended for IP and IT matters, e.g., by JUVE (since 2000), World Trademark Review (WTR1000, since 2022), Leaders League (Trademark Law, since 2024), Best Lawyers (since 2013), and F.A.Z. Institute (since 2025).

Your contacts are: Dr. Hartwig Schmidt-Hollburg and Dr. Stefan Hennigs.