The most notable cases of our IP team's track record of the past few years include:
- the representation of owners of pharmaceutical patents in infringement proceedings of industry-wide impact regarding the question of the general admissibility of a category of claim for the manufacturing of medicinal products
- the representation of a foreign public-law institution as the owner of a pharmaceutical patent in a dispute relating to the exploitation of research findings
- the representation of foreign defendants in a patent lawsuit relating to the pan-European procedural issue of the admissibility of an “Austrian torpedo”
- counsel to a worldwide leading manufacturer of household chemicals in connection with the planning and implementation of advertising and branding strategies from a trade-mark and unfair competition law perspective
- the representation of trademark owners in registration proceedings and litigation before EU authorities and the European Court of First Instance
- the representation of clients in the first infringement proceedings in Austria relating to a non-registered European design
- counsel in the drafting of contractual agreements and in litigation relating to the exploitation of works of literature and art by renowned Austrian psychologists and architects
- the drafting of the legal framework for, and legal administration of, the sponsoring organisation (comprising institutions from Austria and abroad) of a privately financed interdisciplinary research institute in the field of theoretical biology
