As an entrepreneur, you are facing the challenge of commercial risks caused by third party patents and you are seizing the chance of commercial opportunities based on your own patents. With tailor-made strategies using the rules of patent law risks can be limited and chances can be extended.

Patent law, in particular in its international dimension, becomes more and more a complex and malicious Terra Incognita for the public. For this reason, as a patent attorney I am offering to you the service patentnavigator, a spectrum of consulting and supporting activities, in order to competently explore these awkward waters and to set course for a safe harbour.

Precisely, I assist you in

• Taking account of legally valid third party patents,
• Acquiring licences if required,
• Finding solutions which are free from patents,
• Challenging the validity of patents,
• Preventing emergence of patents of others
• And creating an own patent portfolio as a core-asset.

Use my long-term experience and competence in order to perceive risks from third-party patents and to raise chances out of own patents.

Offering the service patentnavigator I provide you with the complete spectrum of patent-related legal services with my international background knowledge on commercially valuable patents. I will shape a tailor-made strategy for your company and realize for you the necessary measures in practice. You receive from me advice –with words and deeds – like from an in-house patent counsel.

Together we find the right course for you:
Business with patents – and without patents.

Patents form a basis for legal restrictions of competition. The patent owner has the right for an injunction so that no other is allowed to use the technical subject matter of the patent without his permission. In the framework of the services patentnavigator I am offering to your company the full range of patent-related legal services and consulting for your management with patents. Thus, you can create your own patent portfolio and be commercially active despite third party patents.

With own patents:

• Apply for the right patent! Concomitant to your development activities we identify together technical subject matter which have a valuable commercial prospect and are likely to restrict the options for action of your competitors.
• Line up internationally! I obtain patent protection in the internal market for you - by means of a European patent - and in collaboration with foreign colleagues in France, in the US, in China, in Korea, and in Japan.
• Stimulate patent proposals of your employees! I shape for your company a tailor-made incentive system so that patents become objectives of development.

With third party patents:

• Minimise conflicts with third party patents! I advise you on contracts related to patents, for instance non-disclosure agreements, development agreements or co-operation contracts.
• Realize chances with third party patents! I will support you if you wish to acquire a license on a patent of another in order to be allowed to use its technical subject matter.
• Overcome constraints put by legally valid third party patents by means of negotiation! I will help you if you are faced with third party patents. Together we develop a commercial solution insofar as a legal dispute can be avoided.

For access to markets no own patent is needed. However, legally valid third party patents need to be taken into account. In general, it is negligence not to consider the publically available information on third party patents. In the framework of the services patentnavigator I am offering to your company the full range of patent-related legal services and consulting for your management without own patents and against third party patents. Thus, you can use patent information and prevent patents from emerging.

Without own patents:

• Create prior art! Together we elaborate targeted citable publications in order to obtain defensive protection against any future attempts to third party patenting.
• Prevent adoption of your not yet public solutions! I protect your information being handed over to others in contractual provisions or through provable official deposition.
• Use free prior art! I advise you which technical information you can realize without interfering with third party patents.

Without third party patents:

• Understand the extent of protection of third party patents of! I explore with you which options for action you have besides legally valid third party patents.
• Prevent unjustified third party patents from emerging! I fight for you against third party patent applications and against recently issued, not yet effective patents, for instance by filing third party observations or oppositions, insofar as the criterions for patentability are not fulfilled.
• Obviate third party patents! I explain to you how the extents of protection of third party patents relate to your products. Together we elaborate an alternative technical solution to such a degree as to avoid the scope of protection of a legally valid patent.