IP- | IT-law.

We advise and support our clients with regard to assessing, protecting, and exploiting intellectual property.

subject areas.

• Copyright law
• Trademark law
• Patent law
• Competition law
• Licensing agreements
• Confidentiality agreements
• Industrial property rights
• Evaluation and research
• Formal warning letters and injunctions
• Legal enforcement and defense

services.

• Protection of trademarks, utility and design models (designs)
• Contract drafting
• Out-of-court and judicial disputes

Sonntag & Partner has extensive expertise in the subject areas of social media, e-commerce, and mobile commerce. We advise and support our clients in drafting contracts, general terms and conditions, and with regard to duties to provide information.

services.

• Initiation of data protection management
• Regulations on order data processing
• Employee data protection
• Customer relationship, data warehouse and scoring
• Data protection on the Internet
• Legal evaluation and securing websites, Internet portals, online shops
• Distribution and marketing in e-commerce and mobile commerce
• Distribution and marketing via social media platforms
• Preparing general terms and conditions
• Preparing terms of use
• Counsel with respect to duties to provide information in distance selling transactions/in electronic legal transactions
• Customer information, cancellation instructions, etc.
• Contract drafting
• Customer protection

More on the subject |  data protection

Our established multidisciplinary teams support you and your company in all questions concerning IT, telecommunications, domain and Internet law. These serve to classify by origin and are of tremendous importance for the commercial activity of a company in the course of distribution and marketing.

services.

• Counsel and representation in extrajudicial and judicial domain disputes
• ADR proceedings and international arbitration tribunal proceedings (WIPO and UDRP proceedings)
• Domain dispute requests
• Counsel for all trademark law questions
• Contract drafting (domain purchase contracts, transfer contracts)
• Trademark and domain registrations
• Extrajudicial and judicial disputes
• Arbitration proceedings
• Licensing agreements
• Trademark strategies
• Examination and research
• Enforcing and defending rights
• Development and implementation of trademark strategies
• Trademark research and trademark applications
• Trademark management and trademark monitoring
• Trademark licenses and other contract forms
• Combating product and trademark piracy

Our multidisciplinary working teams advise with great proficiency and reliably assume management from a legal perspective of complex IT projects, as well legal support in introducing software solutions and with licensing negotiations.

subject areas.

• Consulting and assistance with contract negotiations
• IT project contracts
• Software licensing agreements
• Software development agreements
• Contracts concerning software rentals and software leasing
• Software maintenance and service contracts
• Software escrow agreements (source format/source code)
• Application service providing (ASP)
• Consulting on cloud computing
• IT outsourcing
• IT distribution contracts

services.

• IT provider contracts
• Consulting/representation in connection with infringements on software rights: Development and cooperation agreements
• Developing IT guidelines
• IT compliance
• Assisting with IT audit procedures

Complex civil and criminal law litigation in cases of

• privacy infringement and defamation
• (business) libel
• Copyright and competition law violations

We support our clients in the legally compliant configuration of their marketing and distribution activities.

subject areas.

• Contract drafting in the area of copyright and publishing law
• Protection of product designs
• Architect copyright law
• Defending artists and the rights of publishers