LAWYERS
WEIGAND & KELLER
Commercial legal protection, trademarks,
copyright, competition, It law
I.) Commercial legal protection
(trademark, copyright, competition law)
a.) Trademark and designation (brands)
- Registration of trade names (German trademarks, EU, community trade marks, international trademark registrations)
- Proceedings before the German patent and trademark office and the HABM Agentur der Europäischen Union für Marken und Geschmacksmuster (Agency of the European Union for trademarks and design patents), representation in court and outside the courts in violation proceedings
- Compilation of license agreements
- Reprimands and how to defend oneself against them, design protection (design patents, 3D trademarks)
b.) Copyright
- Copyright contract law (granting of the right of exploitation, design of license agreements)
- Violations of copyrights and related protection rights (databases, photos, sound storage media)
- Owner´s rights with regards their own images
c.) Competition law
- unfair or misleading advertising, delusion and deception of the market, disturbance or disruption of competitors´ activities, nuisance
- Representation in court in all areas mentioned (in particular in the event of a reprimand and court order)
d.) Patent registrations
- (in collaboration with a leading patent law firm)
II.) IT law
- Liability for internet content
- Domain disputes, rights of the domains
- Compilation of exploitation conditions for websites
- Legal support of web designer, media agencies, webshop administrators, websites
- Online specific copyright
- Reprimands and how to defend oneself against them
- IT contract law
- Compilation and negotiating of IT contracts (software generation, software transmission, software adaptation, hardware procurement, support contracts, licence contracts, alternative license models, project contracts, distribution contracts, contracts for staff and consultancy agents)
- Preparations of the terms and conditions
- Checking of your website, for instance website information, information on the right to withdraw from contracts, acceptability of your advertising actions from the point of view of competition law, pricing information
- IT specific criminal law
Weigand & Keller
Holzweg 16
D-61440 Oberursel
Phone: +49 (0) 61 71 580 555
Fax: +49 (0) 61 71 580 558