MILLER Rechtsanwälte - Freiburg

Office profile

Intellectual and industrial property

Our office’s main areas of practice are intellectual and industrial property, particularly trademarks, patents, utility models and designs. Another main focus is on copyright and competition law.

Trademark law and utility patent law

• protection of your trademarks, logos, titles, names and your company name
• national and international registration of your trademarks
• professional trademark researches
• enforcement and repulsion of your claims for omission, information and damages
• defence and representation in court esp. infringement, application for a restrictive injunction, deletion and opposition
• ongoing observation and administration of your intellectual property rights
• draft and examination of your contracts and license agreements

Patent law

• national and international registration of your patent rights
• professional patent researches
• observation and administration of your patent rights

Further fields of practice

• copyright law
• competition law
• We give advice in matters concerning trademark, patent, copyright and competition law.
• We draft license agreements and represent our clients in front of civil courts, the German patent and trademark office, the German patent court, the World Organisation of Intellectual Property (WIPO) and the Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM).
• We register national and international intellectual property rights and accompany applications through the registration process. By dealing with complaint and examination replays as well as complaints of third parties we accomplish the registration and administer the patent and trademark portfolio of our clients.
• Upon request and prior to filing a trademark application, we perform full availability searches for our clients, giving a well founded opinion on the chances of success of the planned application based on the present situation on the market and in the trademark registry.
• Each innovation of our client is subject to a depth patentability check and we give a prognosis in regard to the danger of collision with prior patent rights. At this we also incorporate the demands set by the German law on employee-inventions.
• We advise and represent in competition issues, internet, patent, trademark and domain collisions.
• We correspond with our clients in German and English.