Hinz & Associates helps growth-minded companies protect
their invention (→ patent), their good reputation (→ trademark) and/or their creativity (→ design)
that propel them into the next phase of commercial success

Intellectual Property Rights available

 Patent, Trademark and Design Attorney Patent Documents

Patent

  • Device Patent
  • Method Patent
  • Use Patent
  • Composition of Matter Patent
  • Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC)
  • Utility Model (in some countries only)
  • Unitary Patent (EU only)

Industrial Design

  • Registered Design
  • Non-Registered Design (EU-only)
  • Design Patent (US only)

Trademark / Servicemark

  • Word Mark
  • Figurativ Mark
  • Shape Mark
  • Position Mark
  • Pattern Mark
  • (single or multiple) Color Mark
  • Sound Mark
  • Motion Mark
  • Multimedia Mark
  • Hologramm Mark
  • Collective Mark
  • Certification Mark
  • Geographical Indication
  • Working Title Protection
  • Mark of Undertaking

Offer for Start Ups, Inventors, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and and and

Get important information for your project and take advantage of 30 years experience in IP-Law !  Book a 20 minutes consultation for free.

For more than 30 years now, Hinz & Associates helps Start Ups, Market Leaders, SMEs, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, CEOs and others to achieve the best possible protection for their Intellectual Property.  Our Expertise covers not only EU and German IP-Law, but also International IP-Law !

Additionally, we are part of a worldwide network of associated Patent, Trademark and Design Attorneys in order to get a Patent / Trademark / Design for you in almost every country in the world.

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Claus-Dieter Hinz | Patentanwalt
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Dipl.-Ing.

Claus HINZ

European Patent Attorney

  • Vita

    Vita:

    • Studies in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University (DE), including thesis in the field of turbomachinery, process technology and environmental engineering and including academic employment at the „Institut of Jet Propulsion and Turbomachinery“; degree as Diplomingenieur in 1989
    • Training in intellectual property rights with IP firms in Germany and the USA, with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Federal Patent Court and the Patent Litigation Chamber of the Civil Court in Düsseldorf
    • Junior Associate at Vigil & Associates (US) since 1991
    • (German) Patentanwalt since 1994, European Patent Attorney since 1995 and European Trademark and Design Attorney since 1996
    • Practicing IP law as a partner of IP law firm Walther Hinz & Bayer (Kassel, DE) until 2021
    • Lecturer for Intellectual Property Law -Patent/Trademark/Design- at the University of Kassel (DE) since 1997
    • Member of the Examination Committee for the EQE at EPO since 2020

    Technical Expertise

    Mechanical, automotive, industrial, medical, mining, civil, safety and process engineering, including tool machinery, watchmaking, measurement and control, packaging, extruder and molding technology, transportation, as well as Physics etc.

    Languages

    German and English

    Hobbies

    Vintage Cars, Sailing and Good Food

    Memberships

    Patentanwaltskammer (PAK), EPI, FICPI, AIPPI, GRUR, INTA, LES, VPP

    Social Commitment

    Arbeiterkind = supporting university education of non academic children / www.arbeiterkind.de

  • Areas of Practice

    IP Rights counseling

    • Strategic portfolio counseling, incl. building, composition & pruning
    • Evaluation of generated IP
    • Patent, Trademark, Design search
    • Freedom to operate search (FTO)
    • Foreign IPR counseling
    • Patent Trademark & Design watch

    Patents | Trademarks | Designs

    • Innovation counseling
    • Trademark / Design counseling
    • Developing an international filing strategy
    • New patent application drafting
    • Drafting list of goods and services
    • Mapping your design
    • Prosecution at DPMA/EPO/WIPO
    • Foreign application procurement

    Counsel-on-Demand

    • Expert opinion on infringement
    • IP related agreements (NDA, license, coexisting)
    • Developing license strategies
    • Negotiating licenses
    • IP compliance reviews, especially website, press releases, product literature, etc
    • Cease and desist orders

    Opposition against IP Rights

    • Expert opinion on oppositions
    • Novelty search for Prior Art
    • Trademark search
    • Drafting / filing a:
      • Patent Opposition at DPMA/EPO
      • TM Opposition at DPMA/EUIPO
    • Drafting TM prior right agreement
    • Drafting TM coexistence agreement
    • Attending an oral proceeding
    • Preparing and filing an Appeal

    Invalidity of IP Rights

    • Experts opinion on invalidity of Patents, Trademarks, Designs, Utility Models
    • IPR search
    • Drafting / filing a:
      • Patent Nullity Suit at BPatG
      • TM Cancellation Request at DPMA/EUIPO
      • Design Invalidity Request at DPMA/EUIPO
      • UM Cancelling Request at DPMA
    • Attending an oral proceeding
    • Preparing and filing an Appeal

    Offer for Start Ups, Inventors, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and and and

    Get important information for your project and take advantage of 30 years experience in IP-Law !  Book a 20 minutes consultation for free.

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Seminars:  Get ahead of the peloton

Utility model:  Your secret weapon

How to get around a patent

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Offer for Start Ups, Inventors, CEOs, Entrepreneurs and and and

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Dipl.-Ing. Claus HINZ
Patentanwalt | European Patent Attorney
European Trademark and Design Attorney

Phone: +491715260612
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