Partners

GEVERS

GEVERS, with its 210 employees, including 88 attorneys, and its experience of over a century, offers today a strategic support in Intellectual Property which goes far beyond the legal protection of patents and trademarks: GEVERS' mission is to create and add value to your innovation, by turning intellectual property into assets and profits. We operate as an integrated professional group, offering flexible services across the whole intellectual property asset life-cycle, from innovation to monetization. (www.gevers.eu)

EIPLA

The European Intellectual Property Law Alliance EIPLA is a cross-border Alliance between the Belgian firm BIRD GOËN & Co and the German firm Michalski Hüttermann & Partner. A pool of 24 patent attorneys with an additional 13 patent engineers as well as highly-experienced paralegal support are located in Leuven, Düsseldorf and Munich. Joint teams with professional expertise in all technological areas from both firms work closely together, pooling their expertise and know-how to ensure they provide a near-to seamless service.

The patent attorneys belonging to EIPLA deal with all aspects of filing, prosecution, maintenance, licensing and litigation support of patents, trademarks and designs and provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) and legal services in Europe, Belgium, France, Germany, the UK, and Luxembourg including licensing and contract activities.

BIRD GOËN & Co has been ranked by MIP No.1 in the TOP TIER IP Firms in Belgium in 2008 for being exceptionally responsive and professional in its handling of cases before authorities.

The patent attorneys of Michalski Hüttermann & Partner compete and excel in the most dense IP litigation area of Europe. They focus on delivering high-quality cost-effective IP protectionin their chosen fields of chemistry, pharmacy, biotechnology, computer software, electronics as well as mechanical and electrical engineering.

BIRD GOËN & Co and Michalski Hüttermann & Partner are two independent firms which entered a formal collaboration without creating any form of legal entity and without any authority to bind each other towards third parties.

BIRD GOËN & Co
Klein Dalenstraat 42A, B-3020 Winksele, Belgium
Phone: +32 16 480562
Fax: +32 16 480528
ipadmin@birdgoen.com

Michalski Hüttermann & Partner
Neuer Zollhof 2, D-40221 Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 211 1592490
Fax: +49 211 15924920
mail@mhpatent.de
www.mhpatent.de