Software/ IT
As well as several large software and electronics companies, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT also advises small and medium sized enterprises as well as start-ups. Our experience providing advice to companies of such vastly differing sizes, combined with the expert knowledge of our attorneys, allows us to develop patent strategies which are optimally tailored to best serve our client’s interests.
BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is well positioned to support you in all aspects of patent application and representation at the German and European Patent Offices: our law firm provides attorneys who, before joining us, were employed in software and electronics companies and therefore possess first hand experience of the questions and issues which can arise in this field. Our attorneys can support you, however, from a much earlier point in the development process: we offer analysis and evaluation of new developments from a patent perspective, analyse industrial property portfolios of competitors and prepare patent applications.
We advise on software related inventions and developments, in particular in the following fields:
- System related software
- Computer networks
- GUIs and interfaces
- Device and machine control
- Telecommunication
- Software for administration and logistics purposes
- Bioinformatics
- Internet related applications
- Software for business related processes
- Special application software
Naturally, our professional services include advice and representation in infringement cases as well as licensing or technology transfer projects. This is complemented by the expertise of our attorneys at law who are specialised in copyright and in licensing contract law. We therefore offer a comprehensive service: software developments are optimally integrated into the client’s business concept from both a technical and a legal perspective.
Many of our attorneys are active in national and international committees on software related issues and are often called upon as experts in this field. Our attorneys thus have background knowledge at their disposal which enables them to take upcoming developments in legislation into account when advising their clients. This is of considerable advantage, considering the patenting of software based inventions has experienced rapid changes in recent years. It has, therefore, not been rare for the legal situation at the time of granting of a patent to have been completely different to the situation at the time of application.
