Trademarks, Design, Patent, Copyright
By advising at an early stage we can help you to avoid adverse conflicts and unnecessary costs. We will be pleased to give advice on your project from the first idea, its realization, the protection of the results, to the potentially necessary enforcement of your protected rights. Global networking, constant availability of and easy access to information, as well as new technologies as easier means to imitating products, endanger creative work and company know-how. We are constant companions of our clients in their trademark, design, patent and copyright law matters. We advise and represent trademark owners, inventors, creators and designers from various industrial sectors – from the first idea and development through the publication to a potential commercialization. PENDL MAIR consists of a team of lawyers, who are highly qualified in all areas of Intellectual Property Law. Our IP attorneys have established their reputation in this field well beyond the Austrian borders. By advising at an early stage we can help our clients to protect their intellectual property rights efficiently and effectively in order to avoid adverse conflicts and unnecessary costs.
We are constant legal companions to our clients in all areas of trademark law. PENDL MAIR has experts with many years of experience in trademark law and we advise well-known Austrian and international companies and groups on all related issues and also often manage their trademark portfolios worldwide. We currently manage a very large number of trademarks of our clients. Due to our long-standing attendance of international trademark law conferences, we have built up a worldwide network of trademark experts and are thus able to offer solutions to our clients via our correspondent law firms worldwide.
Learn MoreBy advising at an early stage, we can helpour clients to protect their trademarks to the required extent, both nationally and internationally, and to avoid unwanted registration difficulties as well astrademark conflicts and the associated unnecessary costs. Our experience also enables us in advance to assess the chances of success and risks as well as the costs to be expected by our clients. Our focus of advice in trademark law includes in particular the following topics and possible problem solutions:
- Applications for national trademarks, international trademarks as well as of Union Trademarks (formerly „Community Trademarks”)
- Development of international trademark protection strategies - we have not only successfully advised in connection with the usual word and figurative trademarks, but also with regard to certification trademarks, 3D trademarks, motion trademarks, color trademarks, shape trademarks etc.
- Legal advice regarding the preparation of a customized list of goods and services
- Development of international trademark protection strategies including cost optimization
- Drafting of and replying to cease and desist letters
- Legal advice and representation in trademark disputes as well as in civil and criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Opposition proceedings before the Austrian Patent Office or before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in connection with Union Trademarks and Community Designs
- Cancellation proceedings before the Austrian Patent Office or before European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in connection with Union Trademarks and Community Designs
- Trademark clearance searches and advice regarding potential conflicts, in particular recommendations regarding required steps in order to avoid or resolve such potential conflicts
- Trademark administration with our own trademark administration software, including the monitoring of deadlines with a separate login for clients - this provides a good overview of the own trademark portfolio with the essential data of the trademarks
- Drafting and reviewing of licensing agreements, coexistence agreements, prior rights agreements as well as trademark assignment agreements.
PENDL MAIR Attorneys at Law
T: +4315129448
F: +431512944833
office@pm-law.at
We support our clients in all patent and design law matters. We advise regarding the protectability of inventions and designs, whereby with regard to technical questions we also cooperate with colleagues from various patent law firms. In addition, we handle Austrian applications at the Austrian Patent Office and also coordinate cross-border registration procedures in Europe. We also assist our clients incase of infringements of inventions and designs as well as in the enforcement of claims.
Learn MorePENDL MAIR supports companies and inventors in the protection of new technologies, such as in protecting employee inventions aswell as with regard to the exploitation and licensing of other patentable work. Thus, the maximum can be exploited from the patent or design for the duration of the protection period. Our team has also many years pf experience inproviding support in case of infringement of intellectual property rights. Our focus of advice in patent and design law includes in particular the following topics and possible problem solutions:
- Review,preparation and support of patent applications
- Adviceand analysis with regard to the protection of designs
- Drafting,reviewing and negotiating all necessary agreements, including licensing andother transfer agreements
- Drafting of and replying to cease and desistletters
- Legal advice and representation in disputes in court and out-of-court
PENDL MAIR Attorneys at Law
T: +4315129448
F: +431512944833
office@pm-law.at
We support our clients in all copyright issues, both on the side of authors as well as on the side of companies and exploiters. Our team deals with all important issues in copyright law, in particular the legally safe use of works, the drafting of respective license agreements and the practical handling of already existing use. In addition, our partners regularly give lectures on practically important questions of copyright law in everyday business.
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