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The specialists at Vavrovsky Heine Marth deliver end-to-end legal services for your market presence, from marketing strategy, registration of IP rights and targeted use of media tools right through to the successful assertion of your intellectual property rights. Our team regularly advises clients on issues relating to the new economy, new technologies and social media. Our firm also has close links to Professor Nikolaus Forgó, Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalization in Law at the University of Vienna. We provide legal counsel to high-profile media corporations as well as individuals and corporate bodies, supporting clients in all matters relating to media transparency and due diligence obligations.

Areas of expertise:

• Strategic and legal advice on safeguarding and consolidating the market position of companies and/or their products and services through IP rights, handling of litigation PR in close cooperation with PR agencies
• Safeguarding of claims, especially through injunctive relief
• Copyright law
  • Protection and assertion of copyright and associated rights through national and international contracts, legal proceedings and representation vis-à-vis authorities
• Trademark law
  • Advice on designing marketing strategies
  • Trademark research, filtering of identical or highly similar features and characteristics
  • National and international trademark registration
  • Negotiation of coexistence and prior rights agreements in the event of trademark clashes
• Patent law
  • National and international verification, safeguarding and assertion of claims under patent law
• Media law
  • Legal counsel to media corporations on all aspects of media law, especially in connection with controversial reporting
  • Assertion and defense of claims for and against media corporations and their undertakings
• Legal counsel to individuals and companies regarding assertion and defense of personal rights
• Legal counsel to companies regarding protection and use of personal data