TRADEMARK LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN FRANCE
Nathalie Dreyfus Managing Partner Tel: +33 (0)1 44 70 07 04 contact@dreyfus.fr www.dreyfus.fr Nathalie Dreyfus is France’s leading specialist in intellectual property law. She advises clients from various sectors on a wide range of IP law issues from trademark and industrial design protection, copyrights, licences, patents, establishing IP contracts, to domain name litigation and unfair competition both in France and internationally. Nathalie Dreyfus is a renowned expert consultant of the Court of Appeal of Paris, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, and the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). She assists in the process of enhancing protection of intellectual property rights that includes dispute resolution, anti-counterfeiting strategies, transfer of technology and UDRP procedures in the digital and analogue worlds.
intellectual property rights. Dreyfus is also internationally recognised as an expert in the digital economy. As adjunct professor at the Robert Schuman Faculty of Strasbourg and the French National School for the Judiciary, Nathalie Dreyfus gives lectures in France and abroad. Nathalie Dreyfus is also the author of four books on trademark protection on the Internet, a regular contributor to IP press and to her blog on current legal issues concerning trademarks, patents, copyright, the Internet and new technologies.
Dreyfus is an award-winning IP law firm that delivers innovative, custom-tailored solutions for protection, valuation, and defence of
INDIVIDUAL - TELECOMS PATENTS ATTORNEY OF THE YEAR IN GERMANY Robert Klinski, PhD Managing Patent Attorney
Patentship Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Tel: +49 89 75 969 869 0 mail@patentship.eu www.patentship.eu
Robert Klinski is the managing partner of Patentship, a patent firm specialised in prosecuting and litigating national and international intellectual property rights in the fields of electrical engineering and information technology, physics, mechanics and chemistry. The firm is located in Munich – close to the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office as well as the German Federal Patent Court. Another branch of the firm is located in Aschaffenburg, from where clients from the entire Rhein-Main-Area are serviced directly and on-site. Patentship’s team supports leading technology companies, universities and start-ups in Germany and worldwide. The firm has a profound patent prosecution experience in Germany, the EU, the US, China and Japan. Its team members have comprehensive scientific and industrial backgrounds, enabling the efficient prosecution and litigation of most demanding technologies. Patentship further has a strong patent litigation experience resulting from national and international patent litigations, including US proceedings, which have been successfully handled by the firm for years.
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Patentship’s further services include IP monetisation, IP valuation, technology transfer and startup incubation services. “We strive to offer our clients the best possible service at affordable prices,” said Dr Klinski. “We believe that this can be accomplished only through a close cooperation with our clients. Understanding our clients’ technology and needs is the key for us to provide goal-orientated services in all fields of IP. “While the focus of our work is the prosecution of patents and other protective rights including utility models, trademarks and designs in Europe and throughout the world, a close cooperation with attorneys at law specialised in IP allows us also to offer qualified services in nullity and infringement proceedings. Moreover, a wide network of associate patent firms throughout the world enables us to implement multinational IP strategies for our clients.” Patentship provides worldwide full-cover service for intellectual property matters such as German, European, Asian and US patents, German and foreign utility models, applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), national, international and community trademarks, national and international design
models and topographic designs, trademark and patent searches, expert analysis, litigation, licence matters, the law of employees’ inventions, portfolio and intellectual property right strategies. Dr Klinski studied electrical engineering and telecommunications at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and received his doctorate with honours from the Munich Technical University in the field of mobile communication technologies. He also worked as researcher with the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich, where he designed wired and wireless communication systems. Dr Klinski has extensive experience in patent prosecution and litigation, particularly in the area of telecommunication systems and communication networks. Dr Klinski has been successfully representing a globally operating network operator in a number of initiated infringement lawsuits initiated by NPEs and corresponding nullity proceedings in the field of DSL technologies. He further successfully defended a telecommunications enterprise in a German part of international infringement proceedings in the field of wireless communication networks.