Cabinet Guenther Schmalz Patent and Trademark Attorney
Cabinet Guenther Schmalz is a unique boutique intellectual property law firm in Monaco that handles all of the essential professional services any innovator or overseas professional may seek of an intellectual property law representative in Monaco. This includes the acquisition of intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks and design rights, the enforcement of these rights and the commercial exploitation of your rights.
Portfolio
Patents
- Drafting and filing of Patents(in Germany, EPO, PCT)
- EPO opposition and appeal proceedings
- Evaluation of economic viability
- Freedom-to-operate studies Patent validity studies
- Product clearance studies
- Patent infringement opinion
- Enforcement of patents
- Validation of European patents
- Payment of annuities
- Defensive publications
Trademarks
- Trademark search
- Trademark co-existence agreements
- Registration of trademarks
- Recordal of assignment, change of legal form, change of address of a registered trademark
- Renewal of trademarks
- Trademark Surveillance
- In-use studies
Design Rights
- Trademark search
- Registering a design
- Recordal of assignment, change of legal form, change of address of a design
- Renewal of a design
Copyright
- Copyright issues
Licensing and Contracts
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDA)
- Licensing contracts
- Performing artists / musicians / media and sports celebrities' contracts
Specific Intellectual Property matters
- Customs search and seizure procedures
- Development of intellectual property portfolios
- Strategic management of intellectual property portfolios
- IP due diligence for MA
Guenther Schmalz, passed the German Patent Attorney Exam in 1991 and the European Patent Attorney Exam in 1993. His technical expertise encompasses patents for mobile communication technology, computer implemented inventions ("software patents") and business method patents. He was admitted to the Monaco Patent and Trademark Office in 2009.
Our intellectual property law firm is licenced to represent clients before the
- Monaco Patent and Trademark Office
- German Patent and Trademark Office
- German Courts
(in particular in infringement matters and the nullification of German Patents) - European Patent Office
- Office for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
(The Trademark and Design Registration Office of the European Union) and - World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO).
- the European "Unified Patent Court", which is established in the course of 2005.
Contact Info
Conseil en propriété intellectuelle
European Patent Attorney
Tel. 00377 9777 1471
Fax. 00377 9777 1472
e-mail: patents@monaco.mc
Our mail address:
Cabinet Guenther Schmalz
"Le Bristol"
25bis, boulevard Albert Ier
98000 Monaco