LICENSING

Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser understands licensing as a permanent and integral part of counselling clients in the field of intellectual property.

The drafting of license contracts in regard to patent, trademark, design and copyright matters including software forms part of our attorneys' daily practise.

In doing so, the firm always also considers other or additional contractual options such as entering into research and development, co-operation, joint-venture, exclusive distribution agreements as well as closed-distribution-network agreements where appropriate. The firm has built up expertise in the areas of software and copyright licensing as well as in sponsoring and franchising. Other related fields include European and German anti-trust law.

In cases where controversies of parties to a license agreement can not be solved by negotiations or mediation, clients can avail themselves of the firm’s experience in the fields of arbitration and litigation.

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