Comprehensive know-how, longtime experience.
The attorneys of DR. VOLKER VOSSIUS
have comprehensive experience in the area of intellectual
property rights, such as patents,
trademarks, utility
models and designs, and represent
clients in these matters in all proceedings and through all
instances.
One of the core competences of DR. VOLKER
VOSSIUS consists in obtaining, defending and enforcing intellectual
property rights. The attorneys of our firm have successfully
represented national and international clients in patent opposition
and patent appeal cases. We also render advice to our clients
prior to filing applications for intellectual property rights
and develop intellectual property right strategies.
Furthermore, our firm possesses longtime
experience in patent infringement disputes and enjoys an excellent
international reputation in this area, as well.
We assess technical protective rights,
trademarks and designs for private and institutional investors
and furnish expert opinions concerning freedom-of-operation
of technologies as well as regarding the validity of protective
rights and protective rights portfolios.
In addition, we assist our clients with
license agreements, agreements
on the acquisition and transfer of intellectual property rights
and similar contracts as well as with conducting licensing
negotiations.
Further areas of activity of our firm are
the handling and representation of matters relating to competition
law, copyright law and the
German Employee
Invention Act.
With its attorneys and staff, our firm
offers competences in a wide range of technical areas, in
particular in the areas of chemistry,
biotechnology, medicine,
electrical engineering,
engineering, computer-implemented
inventions and applied physics.
Many of our staff members have acquired
or expanded their corresponding expertise during their studies
or a professional stay abroad, in particular in the USA.
Staff members of our firm are active in
boards and committees relating to intellectual property rights,
such as the task group "Intellectual Property Rights
and Technical Contracts" organized by Bio Deutschland
and the Licensing Executives Society (LES), and members of
scientific associations.
DR. VOLKER VOSSIUS represents its clients
before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European
Patent Office, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal
Market in Alicante, the Federal Plant Variety Office [Bundessortenamt],
the Federal Patent Court, the Federal Court of Justice and,
in infringement matters, before the competent German civil courts.
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