Patent law

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Patent law is one of the most important areas of advice at Dinter, Kreißig & Partner.

We advise inventors in the Leipzig/Halle, Dresden/Görlitz/Freiberg and Chemnitz areas and, of course, also in Berlin/Hamburg and Munich for international clients.

We represent our clients before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the Federal Patent Court (BPatG) and the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) in all areas of patent law. In this context, know-how protection in any form is relevant (also in relation to the German Trade Secrets Protection Act (GeschGehG).

Together with you, we will discuss all the essential (and all the only preferred) details of your invention.
In most cases, a novelty search in patent databases is recommended in order to at least check the novelty requirement and to be able to estimate the scope of possible protection for the first time.

We take over the drafting of patent applications or utility model applications and the filing and accompany you through the entire examination procedure before the patent offices - be it as a German patent application, as a European EP patent application, as an ‘international’ PCT application or even as a foreign application, e.g. in the USA, China, etc. The unitary patent (available since 2023) is also becoming increasingly popular (currently effective in 18 member states).

We supervise inventions from a wide range of technical areas. You can find more detailed information here.

You will also find more detailed information on patent applications in the next submenu.

Of course, we also work with you, where useful, to pursue the revocation/invalidity of a patent granted by another party - whether during the opposition period or afterwards by means of an action for invalidity. More details here.

At this point, we would like to refer you to the available funding options, e.g. WIPANO funding or the SME fund. The former in particular has proven to be very popular due to the simple application procedure.

We recommend that you take advantage of a free initial telephone consultation. This is because it is often only during the consultation that it becomes clear which property right can best cover your development. Please do not hesitate to book a free telephone consultation with an inventor on our homepage here.

Our services cover all patent and utility model law issues:

• In the run-up to filing a patent application or a utility model application, we develop strategies for the best application for an invention, carry out prior art searches and evaluate them.
• We prepare description texts/specifications and file them as patent applications. We then take over all the necessary activities in the official examination procedure.
• We prepare legal opinions and infringement opinions.
• We represent our clients in opposition, nullity and patent infringement proceedings before all relevant courts and patent offices.
• We advise on all issues relating to licence agreements in patent law and draw up contracts relevant to intellectual property rights, such as non-disclosure agreements, cooperation agreements and licence agreements.
• We monitor patents and also manage all other property rights in your property rights portfolio.
• We advise on all questions of employee invention law.