IP / IT Law

The field of Intellectual Property includes both, technical property rights, such as patents, and non-technical property rights, such as trademarks, designs, and copyrights. Intellectual property rights secure the economic investment in an intellectual invention. Typically, IP lawyers are also active in laws against unfair competition for this reason. At SCHINDHELM, this know-how is bundled into the practice group IP / IT.

IT law relates to legal issues regarding information technology and counts as a cross-sectional area. For that reason, it includes relevant subdivisions of all main legal areas such as contract law, data protection, and IP law.

With the right strategy and in-depth legal advice from SCHINDHELM, you will ensure your company’s success in these legal areas. This is essential because innovations are a key driver of growth and thus must be sustainably used and protected. This is how you can effectively take action against counterfeit products and plagiarism that cause significant economic damage worldwide. Privacy and data security are now an essential element of business activities and can pose a significant liability risk without sound legal advice.

Our IP and IT Services

  • Contract design: negotiation, review, and develpoment of legally certain software development and license agreements, data license agreements, data pooling, or holistic and project-related data-protection concepts.
  • Advice and legal support when introducing new software solutions.
  • Advice on the management of digital risks in financial markets (Digital Operational Resilience Act, DORA) for financial companies and ICT providers such as cloud service providers.
  • Advice and support for online sales systems (online shop) and reseller structures.
  • Advice on and development of brand strategies.
  • Advice on the registration and defence of your property rights. This is how to secure your company’s growth and investment in R&D.
  • Enforcement of rights under civil law with preliminary injunctions and litigation.
  • Cooperation with law enforcement agencies and customs effectively to combat violations of the law.
  • Advice and representation for claims made against you by third parties (for example, cease and desist, opposition to your trademark application).
  • Advice on all questions about the internet, domains, e-commerce and data protection, digitalisation, and resilience.

Consultancy Needs in IP & IT Law

Nowadays, protecting and defending intellectual property is fundamental to corporate risk management. The right legal action protects your company’s valuable assets by safeguarding innovation, brand names, and creative works and by preventing unlawful use by competitors. At the same time, IT legal advice is essential to fulfil privacy regulations, to design IT contracts in a legally certain way, and to protect against cyberattacks, which ensures the company’s comprehensive legal protection and long-term stability.

IP and IT legal advice are important in the following situations:

  • As part of compliance with new laws and regulations (DORA, Data Act).
  • For an intended corporate transaction.
  • To protect your intellectual property such as ideas, trademarks, patents, and software.
  • When creating or intending to enter into contracts and licensing, and when advising and negotiating agreements and transfers of technology and/or of data.
  • When developing and evaluating data-protection concepts and managing data risks or a data breach.
  • For legal disputes or violations of your rights by other competitors.

Our IP & IT Expertise

We strive to work closely with you and your management team to understand your business and products and to best represent your interests. Our focus in IP and IT law is especially on the following areas:

References and Success Stories

We stand by our clients’ side with expertise and commitment in IP and IT law. The following are some of our most recent successful clients.

SCHINDHELM manages the worldwide trademark portfolio of companies such as ASSMANN BÜROMÖBEL GmbH & Co. KG, Bohnenkamp SE, Dr. Loges + Co. GmbH, GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics SE & Co. KG, NOZ Medien Gruppe (Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, etc.) or wedi GmbH and is continuously involved in strategic IP counseling.

SCHINDHELM represents German and foreign companies, such as the motorcycle manufacturer KTM AG or the Spanish soccer club Atlético Madrid, in trademark opposition proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office.

SCHINDHELM represents a leading agricultural machinery manufacturer from the USA in the enforcement of claims based on laws against unfair competition by way of preliminary injunctions.

SCHINDHELM drafts and negotiates software development, maintenance and SaaS agreements for the reorganization of the online presence of a machine manufacturer.

SCHIHELMND advises a system integrator and managed service provider on the sale of a platform to a logistics company.

 

Contact and Consultation

SCHINDHELM’s IP/IT team provides you with the full range of IP and IT legal consulting to keep your innovations safe. With our offices law firms in DüsseldorfFrankfurtHamburgHannover und Osnabrück, we protect your rights and technologies, safeguard the use, and defend them in court.

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