Intellectual Property (IP) - Integrated and practical legal advice in all matters pertaining to intellectual property law

More than 90 partners and over 1,700 employees provide assistance to our clients in the audit, tax and law¹ accounting, as well as financial advisory and consulting matters.

With twelve locations in Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Greifswald, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Nuremberg, Potsdam and Stuttgart, we have offices throughout Germany and are never far away. Founded in Europe, Mazars is currently operating in over 90 countries.

integrated partnership, 16,000+ in the Mazars North America Alliance – ensure friendly and cooperative atmosphere and are dedicated to helping our clients to secure and achieve further sustainable business growth.

We see ourselves as a sparring partner for our clients. For us, this means much more than extensive industry-specific experience and legal expertise. As a globally integrated partnership, we adopt an entrepreneurial approach in supporting our clients in a spirit of cooperation and teamwork. For each project, we select the specialists with the appropriate expertise to provide you with sustainable, customised and legally compliant services.

¹ where permitted under applicable country laws

Intangible and yet of asset value: Intellectual property rights are as diverse as our clients themselves. One of the most exciting challenges is how we can protect your ideas and products together. Because it is indispensable for you to secure the basis of your entrepreneurial activity, not least in order to be able to focus on the challenges of our time, and new development opportunities.

Intangible and yet of asset value: Intellectual property rights are as diverse as our clients themselves. One of the most exciting challenges is how we can protect your ideas and products together. Because it is indispensable for you to secure the basis of your entrepreneurial activity, not least in order to be able to focus on the challenges of our time, and new development opportunities.

Our intellectual property services include, but are not limited to:

Protection and exploitation of intellectual property

• Comprehensive legal advice on all issues pertaining to the protection and exploitation of intellectual property, in particular the protection of know-how
• Development of IP strategies
• IP portfolio management, in particular patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs
• Development, contractual design and implementation of IP licensing models
• Legal advice on the new legal challenges in the area of intellectual property, in particular on the topics of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

Brands and designs 

• Comprehensive legal advice on and representation in all matters pertaining to trademark and design law, as well as the protection of other corporate trademarks
• National and international applications for trademarks and designs (in particular, examination of protectability and legal representation in application proceedings)
• Trademark administration (in particular, renewal of protection, extension of protection and new applications in case of further development of the trademark)
• Trademark defence (in particular, legal representation in the trademark- and unfair competition-related disputes)
• Comprehensive legal advice on the transfer and licensing of trademarks

Copyright and personal rights

• Comprehensive legal advice on all matters pertaining to copyright law, in particular, those relating to the development and distribution of software and other IT law issues
• Legal advice on social media marketing, in particular, ,the protection of rights to one’s own name and image

Patent and utility model law

• Comprehensive legal advice on the assignment and licensing of patents and utility models, as well as on the issues pertaining to employee invention law
• legal advice and cooperation with experienced patent attorneys in the national and international patent and utility model applications
• legal advice on the matters pertaining to infringement of patents and utility models

Domain law

• Comprehensive legal advice on the matters pertaining to domain law

Due diligence under IP law

R&D contracts, cooperation agreements and joint ventures