Qualifications / Education
European Trademark and Design Attorney
Luxembourg IP Attorney (Conseil en Propriété Industrielle)
Mag. iur., University of Vienna, Austria
Biography
Martin graduated from the University of Vienna with a general degree in law after having studied a year at Universidade Catolica de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal. He moved to Luxembourg for an internship in the European Commission and discovered the wold of IP in his first employment for a local IP firm where he qualified as Intellectual Property Lawyer in 2002.
Prior to joining Office Freylinger, Martin worked for 16 years as Trademark & Design Attorney in an international Intellectual Property law firm where he headed the local trademark team.
Activities
Practice Areas
- Trademark and design applications
- Domain name applications
- Contracting in the fields of trademark and designs
- IP Litigation
- IP audits
- IP trainings
- Trademark matters (analysis of availability searches, preparation, filing and prosecution of trademark applications at the EUIPO, in Benelux and in other countries, drafting and handling of cease and desist letters, legal assistance during trials, opposition and cancellation proceedings, monitoring of registered trademarks, assistance in renewals)
- Design issues (preparation, filing and prosecution of applications at the EUIPO, in Benelux and in other countries, drafting of cease and desist letters, legal assistance during trials, cancellation proceedings at the EUIPO and in other countries)
- Portfolio management, including IP audits, setting up IP protection strategies
- Negotiation and drafting of contracts in relation to Intellectual Property
- Issues concerning domain names (reservation, drafting of cease and desist letters, litigation including domain name disputes)