{"id":860,"date":"2025-08-04T12:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hl-patent.de\/patents-and-utility-models\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:28:18","slug":"patents-and-utility-models","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hl-patent.de\/en\/patents-and-utility-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Patents and Utility Models"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Patents and Utility Models<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Protection for your technical solutions<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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That’s why we are patent attorneys: To protect your innovative technical solutions for you. So far we have successfully guided several thousand patent applications to grant. Our approach is pragmatic and solution-oriented. It is not always advisable to strive for the broadest scope of protection. We negotiate with the patent offices on your behalf and get you what you need. <\/p>

We always keep an eye on time and costs and coordinate the procedure with you so that you always maintain control and an overview. We give you clear recommendations for action with options to choose from in the simplest possible language. We take care of the rest. This saves you time and gives you the certainty that everything is running correctly and on time. <\/p>

Our experience from many opposition and infringement proceedings informs the drafting of patent applications and responses to official communications. We often defend a granted patent as without or with only minor restrictions against attacks by third parties. <\/p>

Our aim is to ensure that the granted patents are also enforceable. The enforcement itself is usually not the goal, but the threat and negotiating potential coming the enforceability. The patents are valuable assets of your company, which you can use actively or passively to secure or improve your market position. Without your own patents, it is difficult to survive in a competition based on technical innovation. <\/p>

Technical innovations often involve years of development work, know-how, and creative energy. Those who invest should protect \u2013 in a timely and well-thought-out manner. With patents and utility models, you secure the exclusive right to commercially exploit your technical invention, exclude imitators, and actively defend your intellectual property. <\/p>

We accompany you through the entire process \u2013 from the initial idea to the drafting of the application documents and the granting of the property right. Our technical training and many years of experience enable us to formulate complex content precisely and in a legally sound manner. <\/p>

Whether national patent applications at the DPMA, European procedures via the EPO or an international patent application according to the PCT \u2013 we are at your side every step of the way. We also represent your interests in opposition, nullity or infringement proceedings. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The German Employee Invention Act (ArbEG) regulates the legal transfer of the rights to an invention from the inventor to his employer.<\/p>

If the invention is used by the employer, the employee has a claim to remuneration that is not covered by the salary. In addition, the employer has various information and offer obligations towards the inventor. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A company can therefore make many mistakes here, which can lead to a conflict with its own employees on the one hand and to loss of rights and claims for damages on the other.<\/p>

In order to minimize these risks, we will inform you what needs to be done when with the least bureaucratic effort. In the event of a conflict, we find fair solutions for both sides. We bring not only legal expertise but also entrepreneurial in-house experience. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Patents and Utility Models Protection for your technical solutions That’s why we are patent attorneys: To protect your innovative technical solutions for you. So far we have successfully guided several thousand patent applications to grant. Our approach is pragmatic and solution-oriented. It is not always advisable to strive for the broadest scope of protection. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPatents and Utility Models - Patentanw\u00e4lte Hemmer Lindfeld Frese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Technical innovations often involve years of development work, know-how, and creative energy. 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