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INTELLECTUTAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE COSTLY TO ACQUIRE AND MAINTAIN …
This comment is often heard when the issue of patents, trademarks and related IP rights is discussed. And it is true: mistakes in the field of IP can be dear. However, this does not only concern the protection of your own inventions and the infringement of competing patents.
Companies without a clear strategy and efficient portfolio management do not only file inadequate applications.
But eventually pay enormous amounts of money for IP rights that are of no benefit for them. According to our experience, companies, which do not regularly review their patent and trademark portfolio, impro-perly invest between 20 and 30 % of all their cost with respect to the maintenance of these IP rights. This cost can be saved. In addition: companies that have never carried out such a review before could easily save 50 % and more.
MORE THAN 5 DECADES OF EXPIERIENCE IN INDUSTRY
WE SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE
After 20 years of experience in top positions in different IP departments in chemical industry, Bernd Fabry founded IP2 in 2006 with the vision to offer assistance, particularly to small and medium-sized enterprises, in the definition, development and implementation of an IP strategy and the handling of industrial IP rights. In the meantime IP2 has been developed to the biggest IP law firm in the area, their attorneys having an expertise in industry in total of more than 50 years.
IP SERVICES
IP offers all legal services, particularly the drafting of patent applications and the prosecution of examination and opposition proceedings in the areas of general chemistry, pharmaceutics, biotechnology and process technology, as well as all services relating to the area of trademark and design law before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the European Patent Office (EPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and IP Office of the European Union (EUIPO). Currently IP2 is handling a portfolio of more than 2.500 patents and about 5.000 trademarks world-wide.
EXPERT SERVICES
In the course of the recent years, IP2 has extended its services by providing opinions on both economic and legal questions. We focus on the provision of opinions with respect to company takeovers and the monetary evaluation of IP rights as well as portfolio analyses, which will be created in co-operation with Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar (WHU). Our evaluations with respect to patent law focus on product and process opinions, infringement opinions as well as on the assessment of issues under the law on employee inventors.
Experience
Dr. Bernd Fabry
Working Areas: (Bio)Chemistry, Process Technology, Trademarks, Inventors compensation law
After completing a degree in Chemistry and obtaining a Ph.D. at the RWTH Aachen, Bernd Fabry started his professional career as a lecturer of Organic Chemistry at the FH Jülich before changing to Henkel KGaA in 1986, where he became laboratory manager. In 1990, he began to work in the Patent Department and was Deputy Head of Department until 1999. From 1999 to 2011 he has been Managing Director of Cognis IP Management GmbH with responsibility for IP rights, but also for licenses and regulatory affairs. For a decade Bernd Fabry was lecturer of IP Management at Otto-Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar; he has authored numerous papers and books in the field of IP protection. He founded IP2 in 2006.
CONTACT: +49.2166.398.4651 / fabry@ip-two.de
Languages: German, English, French, Dutch, Spanish
Dipl. Biol. Stefanie Daniels
Working Areas: Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy
Stefanie Bläsi completed her biology studies at the University Ulm in 2012 with focus on molecular biology, biochemistry, organic chemistry, genetics, toxicology and pharmacology. Her professions activity in the field of intellectual property rights began in 2013 at an internationally operating patent law firm as well as at the patent litigation chamber in Düsseldorf (Landgericht), the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court in Munich.
CONTACT: +49.2166.398.4652 / daniels@ip-two.de
Languages: German, English
Client first
Our philosophy is based on the comprehensive, competent and punctual provision of advice to our clients for an attractive price, which shows that IP management and cost awareness are indeed compatible. Certainly, we also wish to make money, but we do avoid any expenditure that might benefit us but not our client, and pass on this cost advantage to you. One example is our decentralized organization, which relies on an extensive network of cooperation partners in more than 25 countries world-wide.
But eventually pay enormous amounts of money for IP rights that are of no benefit for them. According to our experience, companies, which do not regularly review their patent and trademark portfolio, impro-perly invest between 20 and 30 % of all their cost with respect to the maintenance of these IP rights. This cost can be saved. In addition: companies that have never carried out such a review before could easily save 50 % and more.
SPEAKING YOUR LANGUAGE
Every attorney promises his clients to provide them with the best possible consulting services. However, experience has shown that most of all the good intentions don’t become reality because of the fact that two worlds collide that don’t understand each other. In the following, you will find some absolutely provoking statements of how we imagine proactive and modern IP support.
- Patents are no scientific publications but means for companies to protect R&D investments and to enforce and expand their market position.
- Patent protection should stand at the beginning of a project and not at its end.
- “Time-to-planet” means to file an application as soon as you can define the technical problem and have a concept for its solution.
- A patent requires novelty – a patent application only requires a clever attorney. A search report without any X-documents proves that the application claims were drafted too narrowly.
- Anyone who is willing to spend a six digit amount on R&D projects but who finds a four digit amount spent for the saving of this investment is too much behaves careless at best. But in the worst case he harms his company.
Dr. David Soilán Rodriguez – Associate
Working Areas: Chemistry, Nutrition, Pharmaceuticals
David Soilán completed his degree in chemistry at the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vienna. After finishing his PhD thesis he worked as a R&D chemist for Henkel KGaA (2000- 2002) and Boehringer Ingelheim AG (2003-2006), before he moved back to Spain for working as a Senior Scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid (2006-2012). In 2013 he started a new career as a patent professional at IP2.
CONTACT: +49.2166.398.4659 / soilan@ip-two.de
Languages: German, English, Spanish
Dr. Lin Gao – Chinese Patent Attorney
Working Areas: Inorganics, Process Technology, Biotechnology
After having completed her studies of applied chemistry Lin Gao left the University of Beijing in 2011 with a PhD degree. After a post-doc time at the University Politecnica de Madrid and working as a R&D chemist at RAE System Ltd. (Shanghai) she passed the examination as a Chinese patent attorney and worked for Peksung Intellectual Property Ltd. in Beijing before she joined IP2 in 2014. Lin Gao takes care of all our work towards and from China.
CONTACT: +49.2166.398.4654 / gao@ip-two.de
Languages: German, English, Chinese
BY ALL THAT IS RIGHT AND FAIR … WORLDWIDE
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR SERVICES
- Drafting of patent and utility model applications
- Filing of trademarks and design models
- Prosecution of grant and opposition proceedings before national and international patent and trademark offices
- State-of-the-art searches
- Drafting of freedom to operate opinions (“Freedom To Operate“) and of opinions on infringement matters and on legal validity matters
- Evaluation of IP rights and of IP portfolios within the context of acquisitions and divestments (“Due Diligence Opinions“)
- Advice and representation in matters relating to the law on employee inventors;
- Advice on license issues, and drafting of secrecy, cooperation and license agreements.
- Development of a competition-oriented protection strategy
- Development of a market-related cost strategy
- Implementation of an IP strategy as part of the R&D process
- Classification of IP rights into business-related and technology-related portfolios
- Portfolio review to identify savings potentials
- Implementation of an efficient and transparent cost accounting by means of a precise allocation of IP families to business units.
- · Drafting of
- budgets for external patent and trademark costs
Our Services
FREEDOM TO OPERATE– NAVIGATION NEEDS A ROAD MAP
It is astonishing that there are still companies making high demands on feasibility, implementation potential and expected ROI before starting a research and development process but who obviously do not care about the legal situation. How else shell we understand that there are six digit amounts spent on R&D projects whereas a four digit amount seems to be too much in order to check the patent situation before starting? However, synchronizing IP and R&D processes is – as the saying goes – actually without alternative.
During a typical gate process FtO reports are absolutely essential at two places:
first whether a R&D project is useful and should be started considering property rights applied by competitors and second it should be clarified before launch that there were no serious changes since preparation of the first report either regarding the composition and application of the examined products or concerning property rights appeared in the meantime.
Don’t let yourself be deceived: even these admittedly complex tasks can be predictable regarding the efforts. Even if it is much work and we do not always get the surcharge: We actually do not dare agreeing on fixed prices for reports.
Where we are located. In the heart of the lower rhine area
Our office is located in the old oil mill belonging to the Castle of Rheydt, the oldest renaissance castle in North Rhine Westphalia embedded in a birds protection reservation, one of the very few breeding areas of the famous ice bird in Germany. Originally a castle dating from 1060, the palace has evolved over the years to become the palace it is today. The castle’s first documented mention dates to 1180, made by the Cologne Archbishop Philip I when he mentioned revenues that were to be collected from the then castle owner, the Lord of Rheydt, in his corres-pondence. The first Lord of the castle mentioned by name is William of Heppendorf. In the 16th century Otto von Bylandt gave the palace its existing exterior renaissance façade and made this place to the center of the upcoming textile industry.
Throughout the 19th century the palace changed hands many times
Throughout the 19th century the palace changed hands many times, however the owners were unable to maintain the palace due to the upkeep costs. Gradually the palace fell into disrepair. The palace was purchased by the town of Rheydt from the last private owner in 1917. Since then the palace has undergone some restoration and has been converted into a museum. The castle of Rheydt is famous for its an annual mediaeval festival and the summer open air music festival, which is also sponsored by IP2.
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