Blog - Patents, Trademarks & Designs

Patente in der EU: Schutz und Anmeldung (GERMAN)

Justus Kreuels - 27. February 2025

Technische Erfindungen (Produkte oder Verfahren) können unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen mit einem Patent geschützt werden. Ein Patent kann in einem oder mehreren Ländern der EU angemeldet werden.
Ein internationaler Patentschutz für die Länder der EU ist auch über das Europäische Patent möglich.

Assessing the patentability of an invention: prior art search

Justus Kreuels - 8. January 2025

In patent law, prior art refers to all information and publications on a technical invention that were available to the public at the time the patent application was filed.

Patent search: procedure and databases

Justus Kreuels - 7. November 2024

A patent search is carried out before filing a patent application. Information on patents and utility models published worldwide is publicly available and can be searched, for example, in the online databases of the DPMA, EPO and WIPO.

The protection of trade secrets

Philipp Henrichs - 8. October 2024

The Trade Secrets Protection Act serves to protect confidential information. In addition to legal measures, companies should also define technical and organizational regulations in order to effectively protect their trade secrets.

Registering and protecting utility models

Justus Kreuels - 19. August 2024

The utility model is an industrial property right for technical inventions. It enables smaller, everyday innovations to be protected inexpensively and easily.

The new EU design law

Philipp Henrichs - 24. July 2024

In addition to strengthening design protection in the EU, the aim of the reform of EU design law is to simplify the processes for applying for and registering designs and to extend the definition of a product to include digital products and technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and 3D printing.