Patents Law Firm of the Year Hungary

Firm Profile

Danubia is the oldest and largest IP Law Firm in Hungary, owner of several awards and provides service for domestic and foreign clients in Hungary and for Hungarian and foreign clients before the EPO and OHIM and in other countries in obtaining and defending their IP rights. Danubia is a full service IP Law firm and therefore works in all segments of IP Law. Our patent attorneys have qualifications covering all fields of technology, and the lawyers are specialized in respective fields within Ip, and all needs of the client are dealt with by professionals having the highest education and practice in that specific field. In complex cases ad hoc teams are created that match the need of the cases to be handled. For major foreign multinational companies Danubia provides services in obtaining IP rights in Hungary, and especially defend and protect their patent and trademark rights. The services include counseling, pre-trial consultation and elaborating optimum strategy for litigation. The activities are broad and include protection of domain names, filing domain name oppositions and litigating infringement by the net, and continued with classical patent infringement, trademark infringement proceedings and inspecting the market for detecting potential infringers. For medium and small size overseas companies Danubia acts as representative before the European Patent Office in obtaining and defending their European Patent applications and also before the OHIM to obtain them community trademarks and registered community designs. For innovative small and medium domestic entities, assistance is provided from the birth of an innovation till obtaining a well tailored IP protection for such innovations. Assistance is also given in preparing and concluding license agreements.

Contact Product Portfolio

Patents • Preparing new patent

specifications based on client's instructions

• Representing clients in prosecution and opposition (nullity proceedings) before the EPO and the Hungarian I P Office

• Enforcing patent rights before the competent courts, predominantly in Hungary

• Validating granted European Patents in Hungary

Trademarks and designs

• Filing and prosecuting national, CTM and international trademark and design applications

• Searching existing or similar rights with or without opinion

• Enforcing trademark and design rights before the courts

• Providing pre-trial opinions and counseling in elaborating an efficient IP strategy

Michael Lantos

H-1051 Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky ut 16, Hungary

H-1368 Budapest 5, POB 198, Hungary

Michael Lantos: Managing Partner Email: lantos@danubia.hu Tel: (+36 1) 411 8716

Dr. Arpad Peth6: Deputy Managing Partner

Head: Pharma, biotech and Chemical division

Product Range Preparing new patent applications

Prosecuting patent Applications before the EPO and Hungarian IP Office

Searching prior art Enforci ng Patent rights

Filing and prosecution CTM and national trademark applications

Searching services for trademarks and designs

Enforcing trademark rights Domain name disputes

Counseling in all IP-related matters

Email: petho@danubia.com Tel: (+36 1) 411 8857

Dr. Gabor Harangoz6: Deputy Managing Partner

Head engineering, electronics and physics div.

Email: gabriel@danubia.hu Tel: (+36 1) 411 8714

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011

31