We are COHAUSZ & FLORACK. Nice to meet you!

Whether our lawyers, administrative team, or junior staff: a wide array of personalities work at COHAUSZ & FLORACK. What do we all have in common? A passion for technology and a desire for good ideas. Get to know us!

We celebrate 70 years of COHAUSZ & FLORACK.

Our blog

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  • Gottfried Schüll

Artificial intelligence cannot be an inventor

First Federal Court of Justice ruling on AI

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  • Tamara Moll & Maria Boicova-Wynants

Guardians of Innovation: Navigating the Intersection of AI, Data Protection and Trade Secrets

In today's digital world, data management and trade secret (TS) protection are critical issues that may even converge (e.g. when personal data is part of a business secret, such as customer and supplier lists).

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  • Mathias Karlhuber

Milan becomes third seat of UPC central division

New seat replaces London

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  • Gottfried Schüll

The UPC one year on: successful start for the unitary patent system in the EU

C&F involved in more than 5 percent of cases

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  • Gottfried Schüll

Bundeskartellamt allows cooperation between automotive companies in SEP licensing

C&F underlines leading role of Germany and the EU in the field of SEPs

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Our expertise

We’ll support you with the development, registration, and pursuit of your intellectual property rights (IP). Moreover, we’ll advise you strategically on the systematic set-up, management, and maintenance of a patent portfolio, the design of IP management for your operation, and due-diligence processes. We’ll represent you in all matters relating to intellectual property rights and associated areas of law before courts and authorities. This includes defending and enforcing your intellectual property right.

Our legal expertise

Our technical expertise

Your company – as individual as your ideas

Whether you’re an SME or a global corporation, a high-tech firm or a creative mind: we’ll show you how to get the most out of your ideas with the right IP strategy.

Idea finders

Idea developers

Idea managers

Startups

UPC and unitary patent

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) will act as a central instance to provide more legal certainty in the EU and to make proceedings simpler and more cost-effective. Find out about the UPC and the new unitary patent, which offers effective protection for your ideas in up to 24 EU member states!

IP rights: more security for your ideas

Whether it’s a matter of technically sophisticated developments or successful forms of design: you must protect your good ideas. With patents, trademarks, and designs, you do precisely that – and gain the edge over the competition.

Helpful! Our services

Our online tools make it easier for you to manage your IP portfolio.