Office Freylinger

Office Freylinger is a European leader in intellectual property.

We provide a broad range of services related to patents, trademarks, designs, domain names, IP conflicts and valuation.

We assist our clients in developing adequate Intellectual Property strategies to help them in acquiring and expanding strong market positions. We therefore lead our clients through every stage of the innovation process, from research to commercialisation.

We advise SMEs and multinational companies, public-funded or private research organizations as well as business entrepreneurs.

Operating in a multilingual environment, all team members are able to work in at least three working languages, namely French, German and English. In addition, we can offer some of our IP services in other languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch or Italian.

We protect our client's interests worldwide through our network of IP professionals.

In Europe, we are able to act on behalf of our clients directly before the European patent and trademark offices and the WIPO as well as before the national intellectual property Offices of the French, German and English speaking-countries.

Registered Trademarks protection

A Trademark registration gives the right to exclusive use of your brand, product of business name in relation to the goods and/or services for which registration is obtained.

Office Freylinger provides a comprehensive suite of trademark services for every stage of the lifecycle of your national and/or international Trademark.

Pre-filing services

• Providing registrability advice, carrying out searches to reveal potential prior rights

• Drafting specification of goods and services according to EU standards

Post-filing services

• Prosecuting applications up to registration

• Carrying out renewals, assignments, changes of name and/or address

• Providing trademark watching services for detecting potential conflicts

Litigation services

• Advising on possible infringement, including forum shopping analysis, i.e. comparison between applicable laws and jurisdictions

• Sending cease-and-desist letters

• Prosecuting opposition and cancellation proceedings

• Negotiating and drafting amicable settlements

Patents for protecting your interventions

A Patent is the statutory right to the exclusive use and exploitation of an invention; the right to prevent others from making, offering, selling, using or importing the patented invention.

Office Freylinger provides a full range of services including:

• State of the art searches,

• Drafting of patent specifications and claims,

• Prosecution of patent applications,

• Opposition proceedings,

• Annuity monitoring and payment,

• Licensing,

• Validity and infringement opinions and

• Litigation assistance.

The patent attorneys have technical and scientific qualifications and experience, ranging from polymer and pharmaceutical chemistry to material science and metallurgy, from mechanical engineering to electrical engineering and computer sciences.

Office Freylinger specializes in the prosecution of European and PCT patent applications before the European Patent Office, and their national validation in the individual European countries.