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Trademark Law |
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Protection of Know how and Patent Law |
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Copyright Law |
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Contracts |
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Transactions concerning Company Law |
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Media and the Internet |
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Pharmaceutical Law |
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Energy Law |
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Competition and Cartel Law |
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EU Law |
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Arbitration and Civil Procedure |
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Collecting of Claims |
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Real Estate Transactions
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Agriculture and Forestry |
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Assets, Wills and Inheritance |
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Trademark Law |
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Publications - Teaching
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- Analysis (in cooperation with our clients)
- which marks are presently used in a company and which thereof are
protected
- which marks a company wishes to use in the future (and should therefore
protect today)
- Advice in different options of protection of distinctive marks (company
name, trademarks, other distinctive marks)
- Filing of applications for the protection of trademarks and for company
names both in Austria and abroad
- Representation in conflicts concerning trade marks and other distinctive
marks
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Know how
Protection and Patent Law |
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- Analysis (in
cooperation with clients) of
- company secrets and technical know-how in a company worth protecting,
- how these secrets and technical know-how are protected presently
- how the protection of your company secrets can be improved
- Representation in conflicts concerning patents
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Copyright Law and Software |
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Publications |
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- Advice in questions concerning copyright law, drafting and revising
copyright agreements (including software-license agreements) and representation
in conflicts concerning copyright
- Advice in matters of media and broadcasting law as well as in questions
of film and television law
- Representation in copyright conflicts
- Advice in all matters regarding Computer-Software
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Contracts |
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- Examination of contractual drafts of all kinds and advice in drafting
agreements
- Support and representation in contractual negotiations.
- Drafting of agreements in cooperation with our clients, including
advice with respect to particular wording
- Examination of existing agreements, judging of legal risks and examination
of the possibilities of terminating agreements
- Examination of agreements with regard to conformity with Austrian
Anti-Trust Law and European Competition Law
- Advice and support in agreements concerning e.g.:
- Purchase and supply agreements
- Distribution and delivery agreementsLicence
- Agreements concerning all kinds of intellectual property (v.
also Protection of Intellectual Property)
- Articles of association, shareholders’ agreements and cooperation
agreements (v. also Transactions concerning company
law)
- Agreements concerning all kinds of banking transactions
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Business Transactions |
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- Founding of subsidiaries and branch offices in Austria
- Support in corporate transformations (generally with our clients’
cooperation, or in cooperation with the clients’ accountant, or
an accountant recommended by us)
- Advice in acquisition and sale of companies
- Support in conflicts with co-shareholders
- Agreements concerning company law (articles of association, shareholders’
agreements, see also Contracts)
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Media and the Internet |
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Publications |
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- Advice in all legal questions connected with new media and the Internet
- Advice and representation in Domain Name conflicts
- Support in business transactions and acquisition concerning Internet
service provider
- Advice on e-commerce regulations and drafting of contracts in
Business-to-Business as well as Business-to-Consumer matters
- Advice on media and telecommunication law
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Pharmaceutical Law &
Food and Drugs Law |
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- Representation in administrative procedures
- Advice in all questions of pharmaceutical law
- Support in approval procedures for new foods and drugs
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Energy Law |
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Publications - Teaching
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- Support in all matters of energy law especially in questions arising
from the liberalization of energy markets
- Assessment of legal chances to choose independent electricity providers
and improve contract conditions
- Advice in questions of the liberalization of the European natural
gas market
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Competition and Cartel Law |
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- Assessment of marketing's compliance with competition law
- Representation in conflicts of competition law, especially in injunctions
- Advice in matters of cartel law, expecially assessment of distribution
contracts
- Advice in national and international mergers
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European Union Law |
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- Support in questions of European law in general and specifically all
questions related to European competition law
- Advice in EU law question regarding the liberalization of energy markets
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Arbitration and
Civil Procedure |
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- Representation in court for all questions of civil and business law
- Advice in the choice of possible arbitration proceedings, setting
up arbitration and choice of law clauses
- Drafting of requests for arbitration, replys to such requests and
other pleadings
- Representation before national and international arbitration courts
and arbitrators, Acting as arbitrator in all kinds of arbitration procedures
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Collecting of Claims |
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- Revising and drafting of General Conditions in order to optimize efficient
claim enforcement
- Demands for payment of accounts receivable from debtors in default,
filing actions and default actions; if claims are denied, conducting
of lawsuits for clients
- Once the sentence becomes absolute, conducting of enforcement proceedings;
In case of a debtor’s bankruptcy, filing of proof of claim at the
bankruptcy court and overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings
- Collection of payments and assignments of payments
- Management of all deadlines, appointments and hearings in the proceedings
- A systematically structured report listing all services rendered by
the firm is provided.
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Real Estate Transactions and Management |
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- Advice in the purchase, sale and management of real estate, e.g. condominiums
and appartment buildings
- Sale agreements and revision of drafts for agreements
- Management of real estate transactions, including real estate tax
statements and entries in the land register
- We act as trustee vis-à-vis the financing credit institution
in the course of real estate purchases
- Advice to owners of appartment buildings in general legal questions,
and support and representation in all conflicts concerning rental law
- Advice in all questions concerning ownership and rental of appartments,
setting up of neccessary agreements, including condominium agreements
and builders’ agreements
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Agriculture and Forestry
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- Support and advice in legal questions in connection with the administration
of the ownership of agricultural real estate and forest, as well as
legal questions arising in connection thereof
- Hand over and lease agreements
- Advice in legal questions concerning hunting and fishing as well as
general law
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Assets, Wills and
Inheritance |
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- Advice in all questions concerning assets as well as the preparation
of all neccessary agreements, documents and declarations
- Advice concerning the strategical planning of the transfer of assets
(both lifetime gifts and hereditary succession)
- Support in writing wills and testaments, holding in trust of wills
- Taking over the duties of an executor and trustee of heirs, and ensuring
the realization of last wills in the proceedings. If desired, any supervisory
duties vis-à-vis heirs
- Advice and representation in conflicts concerning hereditary law
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