Krieger Mes & Graf v. der Groeben

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LAWYERS

Prof Dr Peter Mes - Christoph Graf v der Groeben
Gereon Rother - Dr Jochen Bühling - Axel Verhauwen
Jens Künzel, LLM - Dr Dirk Jestaedt - Dr Michael Bergermann

THE LAW FIRM

The law firm, which was founded in the late 1920s in Berlin, has been nationally and internationally acknowledged for decades to be one of the leading addresses amongst law firms specialised in the protection of industrial property and copyright. From its headquarters in Düsseldorf, which has developed into a central place of venue in particular for the law on patents and utility models in Europe, the law firm attends to clients from Germany and abroad. Its lawyers advise and represent mainly large and medium-sized German and international companies from all branches of industry.

FIELDS OF ACTIVITY

The law firm works exclusively in the fields of protection of industrial property and copyright. Special focuses are

Law on patents and utility models
Law on employee inventions
Trademark law
Design law
Law on unfair competition
Law on advertising for medicinal products
Law on copyrights and right of publication
IT law

The related fields of the antitrust law and further areas of the semiconductor protection, plant variety rights, the law on private media as well as press law and individual privacy rights are also among those focal points.

The fields of activity comprise extra-judicial advice as well as legal representation before all District Courts and Appeals Courts.

In addition, the law firm acts together with patent law firms in cases of patent and trademark issues before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the Federal Patents Court and the Federal Court of Justice and represents its clients in national and international arbitration proceedings as well as in cases of mediation.

THE LAWYERS

Presently the partnership has six partners, who are supported by associated lawyers and paralegals. All lawyers work across the board on cases within of all branches of the law on protection of industrial property and copyright.

Furthermore, the members of the partnership have made themselves a name by various publications and lectures in Germany and abroad. They work actively in specialized organisations on a national and international level (GRUR, AIPPI).

Apart from their native language German, the lawyers correspond in English, French, Italian and Dutch.