Benelux

Firm overview

HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER is a specialised European intellectual property law boutique created in 2015 when the well-established top tier IP firms Hoyng Monegier and Reimann Osterrieth Köhler Haft (ROKH) decided to join forces. In 2019 the firm teamed up with French patent litigation boutique Véron & Associés. HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER gathers up to 100 passionate IP professionals with offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Lyon, Madrid, Mannheim (branch office), Munich and Paris.
The firm’s expertise: In all of its locations HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER services the needs of clients in the field of intellectual property law, including patents and trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights and design rights, as well as in related fields, such as pharmaceutical regulatory law, unfair competition, media and advertising law and all IP related contracts.
In patent law, the focus of HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER lies in particular on the technical areas of electronics and telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, automotive and optics, with decades of proven expertise. The firm also serves all other technical fields, including mechanics, electrical engineering and chemicals.
In addition, in the fields of trademark, copyright, design right law, HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER offers a complete range of services relating to the enforcement, exploitation, assessment and protection of these rights, always at the forefront of new developments. Given the full harmonisation of European trademark and design right law it is ideally placed to serve its clients’ needs. HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER advises and represents its clients across a broad range of sectors including food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, industrial design, media, entertainment and publishing.
The firm represents its clients before all relevant national and European IP courts and authorities as well as arbitrating their IP disputes. It also acts for them as experienced negotiators and assist in drafting licensing, R&D and technology transfer agreements.

Firm overview

NLO Shieldmark

Designs and trademarks are valuable assets for a business. They reinforce its distinctive capacity, create more commercial strength, enhance its competitive position and make it more attractive for investors. Intellectual property therefore plays a prominent role in business strategy, which can be supported by the knowledge and experience of the trademark and design attorneys at NLO Shieldmark.

The European trademark and design attorneys of NLO Shieldmark are committed to protecting and reinforcing their clients’ ideas, designs and trademarks, while bearing in mind the markets in which they are actively involved. They offer availability searches, registration, oppositions, infringement advice, cancellations, watch services, renewals, in-use search and mutations.

NLO Shieldmark and NLO

NLO Shieldmark is part of one of the largest full-service European IP consultancy firms in the Netherlands and Belgium. We offer a unique combination of technical and legal expertise with insight into the business environment in which clients operate. This distinguishes the 15 trademark and design attorneys at NLO Shieldmark and the 70 patent attorneys at NLO. The specialists of NLO and NLO Shieldmark also have the most up-to-date knowledge of the IP market at their disposal, which they use in order to provide optimum management for clients’ IP portfolios. By combining our expertise, NLO Shieldmark can provide clients with the most comprehensive advice possible.

Last updated 28th September 2021

Firm overview

"Giants within the little world of IP”

Established in 1898, GEVERS Group has a long heritage of outstanding services in the field of intellectual property. Its leading reputation is based on many examples of innovative and forward thinking.

Managing member of the GEVERS family have often been described as “leaders and not followers, innovators and not imitators, giants within the little world of IP”.

At many key stages of its history, a GEVERS family member has been behind important breakthroughs in our profession.
An innovative ingenuity is what can best describe the generations that succeeded each other.

We are proud to have contributed to several major breakthroughs in our profession, and to have helped improve the high quality services to which each of our clients is entitled.

Firm overview

Taylor Wessing has one of the strongest and largest IP teams in Europe and internationally. With more than 200 professionals across Europe alone, the size and scale of our practice means we rarely deal with issues that we have not come across before. What makes us unusual is that we are highly-rated across all IP specialisms. This includes patents; brands and trade marks; copyright; designs; domain names and e-commerce; media law and reputation management, advertising and sponsorship, franchising and broadcasting.

We advise on matters throughout the IP lifecycle from development of IP protection strategies; filing and portfolio management through to maximising value by licensing; and when matters become contentious, protecting your assets through litigation in the courts.

All of our teams are technically excellent and many members have previously worked in-house, giving us a deep understanding of our clients’ needs and issues.