Austria

Firm overview

Taylor Wessing has one of the strongest and largest IP teams in Europe and internationally. With more than 200 professionals across Europe alone, the size and scale of our practice means we rarely deal with issues that we have not come across before. What makes us unusual is that we are highly-rated across all IP specialisms. This includes patents; brands and trade marks; copyright; designs; domain names and e-commerce; media law and reputation management, advertising and sponsorship, franchising and broadcasting.

We advise on matters throughout the IP lifecycle from development of IP protection strategies; filing and portfolio management through to maximising value by licensing; and when matters become contentious, protecting your assets through litigation in the courts.

All of our teams are technically excellent and many members have previously worked in-house, giving us a deep understanding of our clients’ needs and issues.

Firm overview

From the first idea to the worldwide assertion of rights including the personal assistance on the ground: ABP Attorneys Burger and Partner offers comprehensive support in the field of IP.

Companies all over the world benefit from the concentration of our know-how in the special field of IP, regardless of whether matters in the USA, Europe, Russia or the Asian region such as China or Japan are included.

ABP has a large, synchronized and experienced team of attorneys at law, searchers and technical engineers as well as a professional network of lawyers in all countries of the world.

We are a motivated team communicating by means of state-of-the-art media.

ABP protects success.

Network Memberships
AIPPI, ECTA, INTA, MARQUES

Firm overview

Puchberger & Partner is a Vienna-based firm of patent attorneys. They are recognized as a leading Austrian firm for patent and trademark prosecution. They regularly file patents and trademarks at the Austrian Patent Office, the European Patent Office, and the EUIPO.
The firm is also active in handling IP disputes, particularly patent and trademark litigation at the Austrian Patent Office and the Commercial court of Vienna. There, they regularly represent clients in patent and trademark cancellation and infringement suits.

They also offer due diligence support, such as Freedom-to-Operate analyses and extensive patent search services. They have in-house prior-art search capabilities in the field of mechanical engineering, electronics, chemistry, and pharmaceutics, which are highly recommended by clients.

They further offer consulting regarding IP contracts such as license agreements, IP assignments, and recordals at the Austrian Patent Office, the EUIPO and WIPO.
Puchberger’s professionals are members of INTA, AIPPI, FICPI and ECTA and regularly attend the respective meetings.

Georg Puchberger is particularly active in the Austrian section of FICPI; Andreas Gehring is a member of the EPI Professional Education Committee, as well as a member of the Trademark Offices Committee of INTA and the IP Office Practice Committee at AIPPI. Andreas and Georg have both received the European Patent Litigators Certificate; Andreas also serves as a lecturer for CEIPI Strasbourg. Both Andreas and Georg have published sections in textbooks on Austrian Patent Law and practice at the Austrian Patent Office.

In client interviews, Puchberger’s attorneys are described as "extremely knowledgeable, thoughtful and serious", "always on top and up to date", and "always willing to go the extra mile".