Our law firm Witthoff Jaekel Steinecke is specialized in the field of technical property rights, i.e. patents and utility models. We represent our clients in obtaining intellectual property rights before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office, in defending them in opposition, nullity and revocation proceedings as well as in extrajudicial and judicial enforcement.
We support you in all areas of technology, with our team of patent attorneys focusing on the life science sector. We are specialized in intellectual property rights related to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, in particular in the field of biopharmaceuticals such as antibodies, chimeric antigen receptors and exosomes as well as biosimilars, generics, diagnostics and stem cell technology. Furthermore, we cover the fields of food technology, plant biotechnology, environmental technology, medical technology, renewable energies and chemistry.
Due to our scientific and patent legal education, we offer our clients comprehensive legal advice on the protection of intellectual property and the strategic use of such intellectual property rights, in particular for start-up and medium-sized companies, by merging technical and legal knowledge.
FIELDS OF ACTIVITY
- Drafting applications for industrial property rights
- Worldwide coordination of filing strategy
- Granting proceedings
- Opposition proceedings
- Appeal proceedings
- Nullity proceedings
- Revocation proceedings
- Infringement proceedings
- Portfolio management
- Strategy management
- Freedom-to-Operate analyses
- Employee invention law
- Licensing contract law