Your inventions, protected where it matters

Patents and Utility Models

From mechanical and electrical engineering to biotechnology, chemistry, consumer goods and IT, we work with inventions across technical fields. We assess the patent risks around your product, then chart a pragmatic route to protection that holds up in your home market and abroad.

Where speed and cost matter more than a twenty-year term, a utility model can be the better instrument. Switzerland does not offer one, but many of the markets our clients move into do - Germany, Austria, Ukraine and China among them - and we will tell you plainly which of the two fits the invention and the market.

Through our worldwide network of trusted correspondents your invention is protected wherever your business goes, whether by the PCT route, the European route or direct national filings.

Granted rights then need maintaining. We track every deadline, pay annuities on time, keep the records clean and forecast renewal costs ahead of budget season, so a growing portfolio stays an asset rather than an admin burden. And if a dispute arises, we stand beside you with clear guidance from the first letter to resolution.

What we handle

• Patentability assessment and prior-art searches
• Patent drafting and filing strategy
• Filing and prosecution of applications
• Utility model protection where available
• International protection (PCT, European and national routes)
• Freedom-to-operate and patent risk analysis
• Oppositions, appeals and invalidity proceedings
• Annuity and maintenance fee payments
• Worldwide portfolio management and deadline tracking
• Cost forecasting and consolidated invoicing
• Assignment, licence and franchise agreements
• Enforcement of patents and utility models
• Customs recordals and anti-counterfeiting
• Dispute resolution and mediation