Welcome to Wittmann Hernandez Patent Attorneys

Our IP law firm is based in Munich/Germany, the center of intellectual property in Europe where the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Federal Patent Court are located. We advice and represent a broad spectrum of clients and offer a broad range of services in the field of intellectual property for protecting your intellectual property.

The IP law firm Wittmann Hernandez offers detailed and individual advice for protecting your ideas, innovations, complex developments and know how. We are pleased to support our clients in obtaining such protection by means of patents, utility models, trademarks and design patents in Europe and Germany.

These industrial property rights allow you to obtain an optimized positioning of your economic activity compared to competitors. Such positioning is product and market specific and will be optimized by our attorneys. In this regard, we are used to prepare client-specific strategies being optimized, for example, depending on type of invention, product, company, sales region and competitors.

The legal services of the IP law firm Wittmann Hernandez include drafting, filing, prosecuting and enforcing of intellectual property rights, as well as representing clients in opposition, appeal and nullity proceedings. Further legal services of our patent law firm are directed to regional phases in Europe and national phases in Germany. Also, we regularly assist our clients in filing IP rights almost worldwide through our global network of well-established law firms.

In addition to the traditional services of a patent law firm (prosecution, opposition, appeal, nullity, trademarks), the patent attorneys of the IP law firm Wittmann Hernandez have wide experience in drafting infringement opinions (expert opinions), freedom-to-operate analyses (FTO) and standard essentiality analyses, as well as in conducting novelty searches and drafting novelty analyses, in particular in the fields of mobile radio communications (GSM, UMTS, LTE) and medical engineering. Furthermore, the patent attorneys have experience in supporting clients as technical experts in infringement proceedings and licensing negotiations.

The technical expertise of Wittmann Hernandez Patent Attorneys covers in particular electronic engineering, telecommunications (e.g. mobile radio communications), software, medical engineering, mechanical engineering, image processing, optics and technical physics.