Keller Schneider Patent- und Markenanwälte AG

We are Keller Schneider, your experts for all matters relating to intellectual property.

Keller Schneider is a merger of the former Keller & Partner Patentanwälte AG and Schneider Feldmann AG Patent- und Markenanwälte. Together with K&P Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, we operate under the Keller Schneider logo and offer you combined expertise.

 

WE PROVIDE

• Solutions
• Legal areas
• Technical fields

 

Solutions

We are masters of our craft as patent attorneys: registering, defending, and enforcing intellectual property rights, as well as attacking and destroying opposing intellectual property rights (more under "Legal Areas").

However, we want to offer our clients more than just legal building blocks. Our aim is to provide solutions for business tasks and specific challenges. To this end, we work closely with Integrate-IP GmbH, our partner for research and patent data analysis.

• For managing directors and technical managers
• For IP managers of larger portfolios
• For developers and project managers
• For start-ups
• For investors

 

Legal areas

We focus on the legal areas of patents, designs, and trademarks. We represent our clients directly before the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the European Patent Office (EPO), and the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). In addition, we are admitted as patent attorneys before both the Swiss and German Federal Patent Courts. Through our global network and in cooperation with our long-standing local attorneys, we also represent our clients before the offices and courts of various countries.

Patents, designs, and trademarks

Official registration procedures

• Preparing and filing application documents
• Conducting examination procedures worldwide
• Formal proceedings up to registration
• Restriction proceedings
• Transfer of property rights

Official dispute proceedings

• Patent opposition proceedings
• Trademark opposition proceedings
• Trademark cancellation proceedings
• Nullity proceedings

Court proceedings

Patent attorney representation in combination with litigation attorney

• Infringement proceedings
• Proceedings for the invalidity of property rights
• Proceedings for assignment of property rights

Contract areas

• License agreements
• Demarcation agreements
• Non-aggression agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements

Analyses and strategies

• Protection strategies
• Assessing the protectability of patents, designs, and trademarks
• Infringement assessments for patents, designs, and trademarks
• Freedom-to-operate clarifications
• Due diligence for M&A

Searches, monitoring

• Patent searches, preferably with our search partner Integrate-IP GmbH
• Patent monitoring
• Trademark identity and similarity searches
• Trademark monitoring

 

Technical fields

Our expertise and industry knowledge

As patent attorneys, we are experts in specific fields thanks to our university degrees in natural sciences or technical subjects (physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, mathematics, aerospace engineering). Thanks to our many years of experience, we have also acquired specialist knowledge in various industries and are constantly learning more. The technical fields in which we have acquired particular expertise include:

Mechanical and plant engineering

Historically, mechanical and plant engineering began with the invention of the steam engine by Thomas Newcomen and its industrial development by James Watt (patent application 1769). A lot has happened since then – today, the industry is one of the largest sectors of our economy and will continue to develop as a result of trends such as digitalization and sustainability.

• Drive technology
• Printing technology
• Conveyor technology
• Heating and ventilation technology

Vehicle construction

Vehicle construction includes, for example, the large European automotive industry and its suppliers, but also highly developed building technology. These areas are subject to change due to social trends and, time and again, legislation, which offers great opportunities for new developments and patents.

• Buses
• Bicycles
• Special vehicles
• Soil cultivation
• Building technology

Construction

The construction industry contributes significantly to the gross value added of Germany and Switzerland and has shown steady, moderate growth in recent years. Motivated in particular by the sub-sectors of architecture and construction technology, new solutions worthy of protection are constantly emerging in this field.

• Building materials
• Heating technology

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is an engineering science that has brought about great progress in almost every area of industry and life. Many questions of the future—for example, in the fields of robotics or sensor technology—will involve solutions and products from this discipline and thus continue to generate constant innovation.

• Computer systems
• Coding and security systems
• Building services engineering
• Electrical cables
• Measurement technology
• Quantum electronics
• Robotics
• Sensors
• Telecommunications
• Transmission systems

Medical technology

Medical technology combines technology and engineering with the medical expertise of doctors to improve the diagnosis and treatment of sick people, for example. European legislation is increasingly harmonizing national laws, which also simplifies the management of intellectual property.

• Diagnostic devices
• Injectors
• Catheters
• Dental technology

Biotechnology

The use of enzymes, cells, or organisms in technical applications is an emerging field. In various industries, agriculture, and medicine, there is still great potential to use nature for progress.

• Biochemistry
• Microbiology
• Spectrometry
• Genetic engineering

Process and process engineering

Processes often hold hidden potential for improvement or even innovation. Process engineering is widespread across all industries and is facing exciting new developments, for example through advances in automation and robotics.

• Exhaust gas purification
• Industrial manufacturing
• Logistics
• Welding technology

Technical physics

For centuries, the practical application of physics in technology and engineering has repeatedly led to major, groundbreaking innovations that often disrupt entire industries. Individual, relatively new subfields such as environmental physics and computer simulations also promise exciting developments in the future.

• Fuel cells
• Lasers
• Nanotechnology
• Optical systems
• Waveguides
• Solar technology

Materials

• Coatings
• Glass products
• Ceramic materials
• Composite materials

Consumer goods

• Hygiene products
• Furniture

Chemicals

• Plastics
• Propellants
• Colloid chemistry
• Adhesives

 

References

We primarily advise innovative companies, mainly in Switzerland and Germany, on international issues relating to patents and trademarks. Our clients include large, internationally active corporations, medium-sized companies, and start-ups, all of which are driving the economy forward with their innovative ideas.