From mechanics to materials engineering to thermodynamics, from precision engineering to automotive manufacturing to plant engineering – mechanical engineering covers a vast technological range. Patents are essential wherever inventions represent a competitive advantage.
This applies to medium-sized companies just as much as to large corporations. In mechanical engineering especially, patents act as engines of the economy: reliably protected innovations advance your company and help secure important market share.
With a mechanical engineering patent, you can patent a product, a machine, or a technical process – ideally all at the same time. Our attorneys and engineers work with you to develop the optimal scope of protection for the patent. In doing so, we take into account your patent strategy and the particularities of your industry.
At the start of every new product or process is the idea of the engineer or mechanical engineer. It is meant to solve a technical problem, improve an existing product or process, or legally circumvent a competitor's patent.
Our experienced attorneys help you to precisely formulate this idea for filing an industrial property right application. Together, we develop the right patent strategy, taking future workaround solutions into account as well. The end result should be an officially examined and granted mechanical engineering patent that helps you achieve your business goals.
After the patent application has been filed with the patent office, the prior art is searched to examine the patentability of your new product or process. Should the prior art jeopardise the granting of the patent, we will inform you of this openly.
However, with a well-considered filing strategy and in close coordination with you, our attorneys can do a great deal during the proceedings before the patent office to achieve the desired outcome. This includes critically examining the patent office's objections and challenging them vigorously where there is room for argument.
