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About

Personal. Exclusive. Long-term.

BDPE is a genuine service boutique – we serve our clients with the explicit promise to guarantee exclusive, personal advice in the long term.

Especially when it comes to IP litigation, we keep the risk of a conflict of interest as low as possible for you.

Our partners have been well-known contacts in their fields for almost 20 years and are among the few established experts in our clients’ industries.

This means we can support you not only in an advisory capacity, but also as real business partners who understand your business.

The Firm

The patent attorneys and attorneys at law of BDPE specialise in litigation and prosecution in the field of intellectual property. We combine branch-specific and technical expertise with legal competence.

Our expertise is focused on patent and utility model law, in trademark, design and copyright law, as well as in competition, domain and employee invention law. Working closely together, we unite legal expertise and technical knowledge for the benefit of our clients.

We work for clients in Germany and abroad and have an international network of contacts with other law firms and patent attorneys.

Competence

Legal representation in patent, trademark and design litigation, as well as in copyright and competition proceedings.

BDPE protects innovations, new technologies and products, brands and new designs, and handles the corresponding grant, appeal and opposition proceedings.

Legal activities:

  • Patent Litigation
  • Patent Prosecution
  • Trademark Litigation
  • Trademark Prosecution
  • Designs, Copyrights, Unfair Competition

Technical areas of expertise:

  • Automotive
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Medical Engineering
  • Software
  • Sports Equipment
  • Telecommunications

Branches:

  • Communication Agencies
  • Consumer Goods
  • Energy Suppliers
  • Furniture Retail

Diversity

BDPE promotes diversity! Our attorneys and additional staff members speak as many as ten different languages and represent nine different nationalities. This makes it possible, for example, for our firm to interact directly with a broad client base across the globe.

We are committed in our hiring practices to seek out diverse lawyers and ensuring that they will be strategically invested in and advanced.

BDPE does not discriminate based on race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, birth or other status such as disability, age, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and health status.

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Italian
  • Turkish

Memberships

  • European Patent Institute
  • German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright Law (GRUR)
  • Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys
  • International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI)