Company mission and objectives
Your Intellectual Property partner for Europe
Bird GOËN & Co is an Intellectual Property Law firm dealing with all aspects of filing, prosecution, maintenance, licensing and litigating of patents, trademarks and designs and provides a full range of intellectual property (IP) and legal services in Europe, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, and Luxembourg including licensing and contract activities. Offices are located in Leuven and Gent, Belgium
A truly European intellectual property law firm
BIRD GOËN & Co is constantly building a multi-national team of IP professionals able to act in various European Union (EU) countries, having a thorough knowledge and experience of the respective European and national IP laws and procedures. The attorneys are fully qualified and experienced and include European, British, German, French, Belgian and Luxembourg patent and trademark attorneys also having a considerable experience with US practice.
BIRD GOËN & Co offers professional expertise in various technological areas. Technologies covered include electronics, electrical engineering, radio frequency engineering, power engineering, power distribution, network systems, telecommunications, data processing and computer sciences, multi-media, semiconductor processing, printing and copying, optics, physics, mechanics, mechanical engineering, materials, surface coatings and chemistry, chemical engineering and chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacology, galenics, biotechnology, bioremedial processes, microbiology, biomedicine, biosensors, biology, bioinformatics, bioreactors, business methods, financial transactions and banking methods, among others.
BIRD GOËN & Co approaches IPR from a firm industrial engineering background.
BIRD GOËN & Co offers the full package of intellectual property services comprising patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights, as well as support and advice for contract and licensing activities.
BIRD GOËN & Co can provide IP owners and users, through the way it approaches its function as an IP law firm, with a truly pan-European range of IP services through a centralised office.
We believe our main functions to the benefits of our clients should be:
- to conduct the day-to-day overall practice and administration of Intellectual Property (IP) work,
- to protect our clients intellectual property by developing innovative, cost-effective passive and active IP strategies and minimising the negative impact and/or cost of litigation,
- to train, that is to ensure that our clients, when they wish it, are trained in, and made fully aware of, the implications of their decisions as far as IP is concerned and hence to allow them to preclude crises.
In performing these functions, all of us at BIRD GOËN & Co endeavour to share the values of sound work ethic, focus on client service, continuously develop both legal and technical in-house knowledge, long-term perspective and high professional standards.