Intellectual property

We operate in Liechtenstein, Austria and Switzerland and support you in domestic and international trademark law. In addition to domestic trademarks, we also protect EU-wide European Union trademarks and international registrations (IR trademarks). When the law requires it, we are supported by experienced experts on trademark law in other countries. As a member of the INTA (International Trademark Association), we are able to draw in a global network of specialist attorneys. We support you with both the purchasing or sale of trademarks, carry out the negotiations and configure contracts.
To avoid conflicts with third party rights, it is necessary for a trademark application to be researched and verified with care. We accompany you throughout the process – from the application to the registration. In the event of disputes surrounding trademark law, we provide you with professional representation before all trademark and patent offices as well as the responsible courts.

Um Konflikte mit bestehenden Rechten Dritter zu vermeiden, sollte eine Markenanmeldung sorgfältig recherchiert und geprüft sein. Wir begleiten Sie im gesamten Prozess – von der Anmeldung bis zur Eintragung. Bei markenrechtlichen Auseinandersetzungen vertreten wir Sie kompetent vor allen Marken- und Patentämtern sowie den zuständigen Gerichten.

Our law firm not only brings together the countries of Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, but also the legal fields of intellectual property and tax. We advise our clients with the protection of their intangible assets as well as the tax-related configuration of their license agreements and the creation of corporate structures.

The new European and OECD guidelines have made setting up an IP box in Europe increasingly difficult. Only a limited number of countries – such as Switzerland and Luxembourg – have the legal institution of the “IP box” for the optimized configuration of license agreements.

We support our clients with the tax-related structuring of their intellectual property rights in the domestic and international structures of company law. We also establish license models and license exploitation companies. We support you with setting up an IP box and with the associated tax-related and legal benefits.

Our law firm offers expertise on contracts and agreements relating to the fields of competition and intellectual property – for example, distribution, license and franchise agreements. We advise you on questions relating to antitrust law, the abuse of dominant market position and during state aid proceedings.

We verify the admissibility of distribution and advertising measures as well as government subsidies. We are also able to support you in the event of disputes surrounding competition law and with the submission of a temporary injunction. We also represent you before domestic and international competition authorities.

We support our clients with their planning, coordination and completion of domestic and international M&A transactions in terms of competition law, and in all matters surrounding merger control.

Our law firm has specialized on franchising, i.e. the establishing of global distribution and license systems, for more than ten years. In the field of distribution law, it is necessary to consider which specific form of the distribution network is commercially and legally efficient.

We distinguish between commercial agent, franchise and license models. Together with our clients, we carry out a precise assessment of which business model is the most successful for you on both a country and product-specific basis. In this respect, we take domestic, European and international factors into consideration, which we combine with our know-how surrounding tax and company law.