A competitor's patent blocks your product? Granted intellectual property rights are not unassailable. We check, whether novelty or inventive step is missing, whether the invention has been sufficiently disclosed or whether it has been extended inadmissibly - and choose the appropriate procedure.

verfahren	versus	When / WHERE
Blog	German Patent	within 9 months after publication of the grant at the DPMA
Blog	European patent / Unit Patent	within 9 Months after notification of grant to the EPA - works for all states
action for annulment	German patent or. German part of an EP patent	after the objection period at the Federal Patent Court has expired
action for annulment / Counterclaim	Unitary patent and EP patents without opt-out	Unified Patent Court (UPC)
Löschungsverfahren	Utility model	at any time at the DPMA

Why appealing is often the best choice

The opposition is significantly cheaper than an action for nullity and can eliminate a European patent at the EPO for all designated states in one fell swoop. Requirement: You know the patent in time. one Patent monitoring ensures that.

Defense of your patent

Your own property rights are being attacked, We defend it - if necessary in a limited version with auxiliary applications - and coordinate the strategy with parallel infringement proceedings.

Objection to a patent grant	AB 1.600 €*
Deletion request / action for annulment	AB 1.600 €*

More about this in the blog: Action for annulment against a patent