Your intellectual property partner – A concise profile
Our services to clients include securing, defending and enforcing intellectual property rights. We represent them before the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and Federal Court of Justice, the European Union Intellectual Propoerty Office (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The two merging partners of the law firm Kraus & Lederer, Lederer & Keller and Kraus & Weisert, can look back on decades of successful consultancy work in the field of intellectual property law.
Lederer & Keller was founded in Hamburg in 1934 by Dr van der Werth. Dr Lederer moved the office to Munich. Lederer & Keller was last located in Unsöldstr. in Lehel in Munich.
Kraus & Weisert was founded by Dr Kraus and Dr Weisert who, with the opening of the European Patent Office in November 1977, began representing a number of US and Japanese companies before this important international institution. The first European patent application filed by Kraus & Weisert for a US client was dated 1 June 1978 and was the 19th patent application received by the EPO.
Today, Kraus & Lederer represents and supports clients from all over the world with a comprehensive range of outstanding patent services for Germany, Europe and the world market. It is our motivation and challenge to optimally protect your intellectual property and to support you in building up your patent and trademark portfolio.
Patents are key business assets
“A full range of outstanding patent services:
for Germany, Europe and for the world market.”
Protection of inventions
Kraus & Lederer assists its clients in all matters concerning the protection of inventions, especially at the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office.
Qualified services
We provide qualified services not only for Germany – Europe’s single biggest market – but for all the countries and markets of Europe. We serve our clients in obtaining, defending and enforcing their patents.
Your competent partner
We are your experienced partners in every major field of technology. Our patent attorneys and professionals are chemists, biochemists, biologists, pharmacists, physicists and engineers.
Fields of expertise
Biology and biotechnology, Chemistry and pharmaceutics, Information technology and software, Electrical engineering and electronics, Mechanical engineering and optics, Start-up companies, China desk
Fields of activity
Patent Prosecution, Opposition, Patent Litigation, Trademarks and Designs, Other Protective Rights, Administration of Protective Rights, Licensing, Employees' Inventions, Arbitration, Due Diligance
Munich is Germany’s high-tech capital and one of the leading business centers in Europe. This city is home to many international companies and important administrative organisations. The European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Federal Patents Court are all located here.
These important institutions are within a few minutes of Kraus & Lederer’s offices. This is a genuine advantage, as we think that the best way to communicate when accuracy and speed are decisive is often a personal conversation – and this is equally true of our work with clients.
Munich is the center of patenting in Germany and Europe.
Ever increasing innovative activity is reflected in the rising number of patent applications filed both with the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as the European Patent Office. Around these two Munich institutions, a patenting infrastructure of huge international importance has evolved.