Profile of the Law Firm
The law firm Dr. Loth focuses on comprehensive services in the generation, support, enforcement and defence of patents, utility models, copyrights, designs, trademarks and other creative performances. You can take project-oriented know-how and experience from approx. 40 years of professional activity, including extensive litigation work for granted. During this time Dr. Loth has built an international network of colleagues. The support of medium-sized companies in Germany and abroad as well as of start-ups is paramount to the law firm.
Field of Activity
Technical Property Rights
(Patent application, enforcement, defence in and out of court in patent infringement proceedings, opposition and cancellation proceedings as well as nullity actions)
Copyrights
(Origin, enforcement in disputes)
Designs
(Design registration, enforcement, defence in and out of court)
Trademark Rights
(Registration, enforcement, defence in and out of court of trademarks, company names, titles)
Competition Law
(Especially in respect of slavish imitation)
Contracts
(Advisory service, drafting of license agreements, R&D agreements, cooperation and exploitation agreements)
The further core competence of the law firm includes the
✓ Conduct of searches and preparation of legal opinions on technical property rights
✓ Monitoring related to technical property rights of competitors
✓ Advisory service and analysis to secure the know-how of the enterprise
✓ Strategic recommendation to secure the core business and to avoid infringement of property rights
✓ Accompanying and safeguarding advice on investment projects
✓ Support of clients in the search for investors worldwide
Bring your innovative ideas to liFe – and get them protected
BY DR. LOTH
Person
During his advisory and legal activities for German and international clients, Dr. Hans-Friedrich Loth frequently had the opportunity to give new impulses to case law in the further development in the field of intellectual property law.
1974 – 1979
Study of law at the University of Bonn
1980 – 1982
Trainee lawyer at the Düsseldorf Regional Court
1982 – 1985
Head of the European Patent Law Department at the Munich Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law
1983 – 1986
Doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on “Novelty and grace period in patent law – German, French, British and European law” – summa cum laude
Since 1986
working as a lawyer in the field of intellectual property law, in particular patent law
2017
Commentary on the Utility Model Law, 2nd edition, editor and co-author, publisher C.H. Beck
Since 2017
Ongoing legal commentary on the scope of protection of patents and on licensing law in the leading online law book on patent law published by C.H. Beck
Start 2020
Resign from office as Managing Co-Partner of LS-IP LOTH & SPUHLER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (law firm) and LS-MP LOTH & SPUHLER MUNICH PATENT (patent law firm), which he continues to be on cordial terms with
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