PAT E N T S | T R A D E M A R K S | D E S I G N S
«WE GIVE A FACE TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS COUNSEL. WE GIVE A VOICE TO YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.»
Where good ideas are found, copycats are often not far behind. Protect your intellectual property and ensure that your ideas will lead only to your own innovations. We will advise you in all matters relating to intellectual property rights and guide you if you want to protect your own intellectual property.
THE OFFICE We formed our own patent law office in 2012, equipped with a great deal of experience and many years of practice in the field of intellectual property rights. As former employees and partners of renowned patent law offices, we know what is needed to run an office successfully. In our office, we want to personally apply this experience and our extensive, in-depth technical knowledge – coupled with customer-oriented ideas – for your benefit.
OUR SERVICES We will advise and guide you in all matters and proceedings relating to intellectual property rights. Thanks to our many years of experience in patent law offices and in industry, we possess the requisite know-how to find tailor-made solutions for the creation, management and enforcement of your intellectual property rights. And we know how you can defend yourself against the intellectual property rights of your competitors. Our extensive technical background and its scientific foundation allow us to advise and guide you competently and dedicatedly in all areas of technology and innovation.
PATENTS Do you have ideas that you want to protect against imitators? We will establish whether your ideas are truly an invention and whether a patent is the appropriate protective right for it. We will draw up patent applications for you, conduct the grant proceedings in the applicable countries and take care of the renewal of registered patents. If an imitator uses your protected invention, we will work out a suitable strategy for enforcing your property rights and guide you through the relevant legal proceedings. Want to know whether you can use your ideas and commercialise them? We will research and analyse whether there is a third party patent that could hamper you. Want to protect yourself against attacks from your competitors? We will monitor the patent applications of your competitors and take the appropriate measures for the early prevention of you being subject to attacks. Have you already been attacked by a competitor? We will find out the best way to respond and guide you through the legal proceedings.
TRADEMARKS Have you created a concept, slogan or a graphic design to label your products or services? We will establish whether and to what extent your sign can be protected. We will work out an appropriate goods and services register for your trademark applications, conduct the grant proceedings in the applicable countries and take care of the renewal of your registered trademarks. If there is a third party who uses your protected trademarks or registers a similar trademark, we will work out a suitable strategy for enforcing or defending your trademark and guide you through the relevant legal proceedings. Want to protect yourself against attacks from your competition? We will help you to maintain an overview of your competitors‘ trademark rights. Have you already been attacked by a competitor? We will find out the best way to respond and guide you through the legal proceedings.
DESIGNS Have you created an innovative two-dimensional form (e.g. a pattern or a GUI) or three-dimensional form (e.g. a container or kitchen appliance)? We will establish whether and to what extent your form, characterised by its lines, colours, surfaces or through the material used, can be protected as a design. We will register designs for you, conduct the grant proceedings in the applicable countries and take care of the renewal of registered designs. If your protected designs are counterfeited, we will work out a suitable strategy for enforcing your property rights and guide you through the relevant legal proceedings. Want to protect yourself against attacks from your competition? We will monitor and find out the key designs of your competitors for you and take the appropriate measures for the early prevention of you being subject to attacks. Have you already been attacked by a competitor? We will find out the best way to respond and guide you through the legal proceedings.
LEGAL ADVICE Want to out-license your know-how, technology or ideas to a third party? Want to in-license know-how, technology or ideas from a third party? We will design fair, cost-efficient and clear license contracts, advise you in relation to negotiating strategies and guide you through license negotiations. Do you want to enter into a partnership with another firm and share the rights and profits on the resulting innovations? We will help you with the wording and checking of the relevant contracts and represent your interests towards your potential partner. Do you have questions about your entitlement to inventions, trademarks or designs? Do you want to sell or transfer rights to your inventions, trademarks and designs? We will be happy to advise you in this regard and help you work out a suitable solution. Have your researchers or developers made an employee invention, or are the shares of individual employees in the invention unclear? We will give you qualified advice on all matters concerning employee invention rights, both on the part of the business as well as the inventors, and represent your interests, if necessary, along with associated solicitors in a lawsuit.
WE CARE FOR YOUR IDEAS
LATSCHA SCHÖLLHORN PARTNER AG Aeschenvorstadt 55 4051 Basel Schweiz info@lspartner.ch Tel.: +41 61 280 50 60 Fax: +41 61 280 50 69