• We offer advice in strategic issues, evaluate your rights and the rights of your competitors, and prepare expert opinions with respect to their infringement and validity.
• We also advise you in matters concerning the rights of employed inventors and are also able to offer assistance in the determination of appropriate remuneration for employee inventions.
• We search existing patents, trademarks and domain rights and, in the event of interfering property rights, help you to find solutions and alternatives.
• We represent your interests before the German Patent and Trade Marks Office, the European Patent Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (Trademark & Design) and at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva.
• We carry out application procedures for all industrial property rights.
• We offer representation in all areas of intellectual property protection;
patents, utility models, property rights in trademarks (incl. company rights, Internet domains) and the protection of designs.
• We support you in challenging your competitors’ interfering intellectual property rights, for example in the context of opposition procedures or nullity actions.
• We actively assert your rights against third parties and defend those rights against attacks by third parties. We have extensive experience in all judicial and official infringement and cancellation proceedings.
• We assist you in licensing protected rights by drawing up appropriate contracts and by preparing and conducting licensing agreement negotiations.
• The extra-judicial settlement of disputes over intellectual property and industrial property rights is another of our particular strengths.
Dr. Wulf Bauer
Bauer | Vorberg | Kayser was founded by Dr. Bauer in 1980. In more than 40 years he represented clients in many fields, including automotive engineering, ultrasonic technology and several areas of mechanics, such as machine tool manufacture, as well as in the area of personal computers and digital storage media.
He has conducted regional training courses for European Patent Office qualification for over 20 years and personally trained Jens Vorberg and Martin Kayser.
He ended his work as a patent attorney at the end of 2019.
Dr. Bauer has shaped the firm through his high quality standards, his willingness to help and his friendly nature.
1980
2003
Change of company to Bauer | Vorberg | Kayser Relocation to Lindenallee
2003
2009
Relocation to Goltsteinstrasse
2014
Founding of partnership
2014
2020
Retirement Dr. Bauer; Nazim Soeylemezoglu joins partnership