Wächtershäuser & Hartz offers comprehensive intellectual property related services. We serve domestic and international clients with the ambition to make a significant contribution to the protection of corporate investments by

• providing comprehensive opinion work on questions of intellectual property
• assisting in the development and pursuit of intellectual property strategies
• drafting and filing applications for intellectual property rights with an international perspective
• prosecuting, defending, and commercializing rights to proprietary innovations that impel business growth in Europe and beyond
• providing strategies on how to identify and deal with third party monopolies
• evaluating patent portfolios, notably for the purposes of the venture capital community

Wächtershäuser & Hartz represent clients before the

• European Patent Office (EPO)
• Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
• German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
• German Federal Patent Court (BPatG)