S & P LEGAL

Cartel Law & Legal Protection of Industrial Property Rights

Today, intangible assets are essential parts of the assets of a company.

Not only do they secure a good reputation and a leading market position, but they also play an important role for the financing, valuation and accounting of a company.

Thanks to our interdisciplinary consulting approach, we assist you in the identification, safeguarding, defence and exploitation of your intangible assets. Our experienced team of attorneys, which is supported by patent agents, if necessary, helps you to identify protectable assets and to define and implement protection strategies. Based on individual valuation reports, which can be prepared or examined by the tax consultants and auditors of our subsidiary Valuation Experts GmbH, we assist you actively in the exploitation of your intangible assets by means of security agreements, licence agreements or other individual contractual regulations.

We, of course, always consider the limits and possibilities of cartel legislation in order to enable you to use your monopoly position with regard to intangible assets at the best. We also assist you in all other questions related to cartel law.

Two of our core areas of expertise related to cartel law are the issue of (monopoly) price control and energy cartel law. For the German Federal Land of Hesse, we broke new legal ground by conducting a pilot lawsuit on water price control.

We advise our clients in particular in the following areas:

Trademark law

• trademark search and trademark registration
• trademark monitoring and trademark administration
• trademark licences and other contractual regulations
• fight against product and trademark piracy

Domain disputes and Internet law

Copyright/design protection

• drafting of legal contracts based on copyright law and publishing law
• protection of product designs
• architects copyright law
• defence of copyrights of artistic work and rights of publication

Patent law/protection of know-how

Advertising law/competition law

• food law and drug law
• examination of advertising texts and brochures
• sponsoring and sales promotion

Cartel law

• technology transfer agreements
• price control and price auditing
• energy cartel law
• merger control