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„Patience is not passive,
on the contrary it is concentrated strength.”Bruce Lee
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„Who has the insight can understand.
Who has the know can decide.
Who has foresight knows how to direct things.”Peter Amendt
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„Design is not just what it looks like
and feels like.
Design is how it works.”Steve Jobs
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„Law, in fact,
has no existence in itself;
its essence is rather the life of man himself,
viewed from a particular side.”Savigny
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„If I have the right aside,
your threat does not frighten me.”Sophocles
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„Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress and
working together is success.”Henry Ford
LAW OFFICE
With 20 years of comprehensive legal expertise, we advise you in all areas of IP law with a focus on trademark, design and competition law, as well as relevant contract law and copyright.
Together with our external cooperation partners, we can also assist you in the areas of patent, labor, distribution and corporate law.
In addition, the firm can rely on an international network of foreign colleagues with whom we can successfully master your legal challenges with an international connection, too.
We take time for you, examine the legal framework and offer you a quick assessment of the opportunities and risks tailored to your concerns.
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Trust is the basis for successful cooperation.
We see ourselves first and foremost as problem solvers and "enablers". Our goal is to provide you with targeted and effective support, either as your outsourced IP legal department or as quick help in the event of acute problems.
We see ourselves primarily as problem solvers and "enablers" with a focus on start-ups and SMEs.
It is our claim to offer you with our proposals, always the most economically sensible solution.
„The advice starts from the client's point of view
and is oriented towards his needs."
PHILOSOPHY
„Trust through experience
and personal contact"
Cost transparency is particularly important to me:
I offer flat rates for certain standard work packages or special projects. This gives you security and requires me to get it right the first time.
PHONE +49-89 200 34 104
FIELDS OF PRACTICE
TRADEMARK AND DESIGN PROTECTION
Industrial property rights (especially trademark and design) are very often the most valuable assets of a company and regularly the only effective protection against imitation.
If you promote it, protect it!
Market success depends to a large extent on the successful protection of trademarks. Even the successful placement of new products is often only possible if a secure brand position has been established beforehand.
We „burn“ for brands and design
and advise you in all matters concerning trademarks, title protection, domains, design and other industrial property rights.
We have many years of experience in managing international trademark portfolios and can help you enforce and defend them against counterfeiters.
An important element to ensure the enforcement of your rights at an early stage and quasi "in the front line" at the borders of the EU is the cooperation with the customs administrations of the European Union. We set up permanent border seizure measures with the customs authorities. Thanks to the information provided, customs authorities can more easily identify imports of goods that potentially infringe intellectual property rights and take the necessary immediate measures.
TRADEMARK LAW
Trademark searches
Collision monitoring
Applications on national, European and international level
Portfolio management
Domain name registration and defense
Title protection searches
Infringement opinions
Customs border seizure
Enforcement and defense of your IP-rights before the national/European authorities and before the ordinary courts, the German Federal Patent Court or also the General Court/ECJ
Interim relief and litigation before civil courts
Preservation of evidence
Coordination of the litigation process with cooperation partners abroad
DESIGN LAW
Design searches
Design applications on national, European and international level
Portfolio management
Customs border seizure
Enforcement and defense of your IP-rights before the national/European authorities and before the ordinary courts, the German Federal Patent Court or also the General Court/ECJ
Interim relief and litigation before civil courts
Preservation of evidence
Coordination of the litigation process with cooperation partners abroad
CONTRACT LAW
DRAFTING OF CONTRACTS
Purchase agreements
Delimitation agreements
License agreements
Cooperation and technology transfer agreements
Research and development agreements
NDA
Whether purchase agreements, trademark delimitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDA), license agreements, cooperation agreements, research and development agreements. When it comes to drafting and reviewing agreements in the field of intellectual property, you are in good hands with me.
COMPETITION LAW
We support you: No matter if you are in conflict with competitors (warning letter, lawsuit) or if you want to have the legal framework of an advertising campaign checked in the run-up to a product launch.
COMPETITION LAW / ADVERTISING LAW
Advice and defense in all competition law issues and disputes
Preparing and supporting of advertising campaigns
Review of your Internet and advertising presence as well as that of your competitors
Supplementary competition law protection
Infringement opinions
Protection of business secrets
Protection of other know-how as well as business and trade secrets
Litigation
BORDER SEIZURE
CUSTOMS PROCEDURES
Application with the customs authorities
Preservation of evidence
Interim legal protection and litigation before civil courts
Coordination of the litigation process with cooperation partners abroad
A particularly valuable and not to be neglected component to ensure the enforcement of your rights at an early stage and quasi "on the front line" at the borders of the EU is the cooperation with the customs administrations of the European Union.
We set up permanent customs surveillance orders for you with the customs authorities. Thanks to the information provided, customs authorities can more easily identify goods imports that potentially infringe intellectual property rights and take the necessary immediate measures.
ASSISTANCE OF
M&A TRANSACTIONS
Company transactions regularly concern important company assets. These include, above all, the IP-rights and the company know-how. With selected experts from tax and corporate law, I accompany you (whether buyer or seller side) by examining the resilience of the intellectual property, its legal validity or attackability. This enables you, among other things, to realistically evaluate and assess the value of the IP assets.
IP-DUE-DILIGENCE
Risk assessments of IP assets in the context of a due diligence review
MICHAEL DE ZORTI
Attorney-at-law (Germany)
Certified IP-Lawyer
I was admitted to the Bar in Germany in 2000 and I am certified as an attorney specialized in intellectual property law. I studied law in Munich. After my legal clerkship at the District Government of Upper Bavaria, at various courts and in various law firms, i.a. in the USA I have been specializing in Intellectual Property law.
As Certified IP-Lawyer I specialize in all fields of Intellectual Property Law and have achieved long-time experienced and considerable practice in prosecution, enforcement and defending of Intellectual Property, i.a. the field of product piracy and border seizure procedures, in Competition Law, drafting of and advising on contracts as well as general business law. I have achieved considerable litigation practice.
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