Intellectual property is among the most valuable — and most vulnerable — assets a business holds. LexBerg's intellectual property team advises creators, innovators, and businesses on protecting, exploiting, and defending their IP rights across Germany, the European Union, and internationally. We act both offensively — securing and enforcing rights — and defensively, challenging invalid third-party rights and defeating infringement claims brought against our clients.
Germany is one of Europe's most significant jurisdictions for IP litigation. The regional courts in Düsseldorf, Munich, and Hamburg handle some of the world's most consequential patent, trade mark, and copyright disputes. Critically, German courts offer fast interim injunction procedures — capable of producing emergency relief within days of an infringement being discovered — giving rights holders an exceptionally powerful enforcement tool that LexBerg deploys rapidly and effectively on their behalf.
We advise on European and German patent strategy, opposition and invalidity proceedings before the European Patent Office and German courts, and EU and national trade mark registration, opposition, and enforcement.
When a client's IP rights are being infringed, speed is often critical. LexBerg moves quickly to obtain interim injunctions, cease-and-desist letters, and emergency court orders — stopping infringement before it causes irreversible commercial harm.
We advise on IP assignment agreements, licensing and sub-licensing structures, technology transfer transactions, IP due diligence in M&A contexts, and the structuring of IP holding arrangements.
For technology companies, LexBerg advises on open source compliance, software licensing strategies, data rights and data licensing, and the growing intersection between IP law and data protection under the GDPR. For creative industries clients — including publishers, record labels, and digital media companies — we advise on copyright ownership and exploitation, performer rights, publishing and recording agreements, and enforcement against online infringement at scale.
- Patent infringement litigation and EPO opposition proceedings
- EU and national trade mark registration, opposition, and cancellation
- Copyright and related rights (neighbouring rights)
- Design rights — registered and unregistered
- IP licensing, technology transfer, and commercialisation
- IP due diligence in M&A and investment transactions
- Trade secret protection and misappropriation claims
- Domain name disputes (UDRP and .de ccTLD proceedings)
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