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Tailored strategies for optimum risk protection

We offer wide-ranging advice on legal matters relating to production and product liability, extending from product and manufacturer's liability through cooperation agreements (including contract manufacturing agreements) to product alerts and recalls.

We create a tailored strategy for each client covering all relevant production matters. We advise on partnering with other companies to develop and manufacture new products, while safeguarding against increasing product liability risks in international trade. In the event of major product liability claims, our clients benefit from ongoing support. We also seek to achieve the best possible legal position at the outset through intelligent claim management systems. Our clients can rely on our experts’ many years of in-court experience, whether representing an injuring party, injured party or certification company.

Our Production service portfolio

  • Research and development agreements
  • Industrial plant agreements
  • Contract manufacturing agreements
  • Tool leasing/lending agreements
  • Toll manufacturing agreements, outsourcing agreements
  • CE certification and other safety-relevant product requirements

Our Product Liability service portfolio

  • Obligations to provide instructions and warnings, recalls
  • Countering claims for compensation
  • Enforcing claims by companies that have suffered damage due to defective products
  • Enforcing claims against liability underwriters
  • Helping liability insurers and their policyholders to defend and settle third-party compensation claims
17/09/2020
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Com­mer­cial law reaches in­to all sec­tors. It is at the core of every busi­ness. Today’s in­creas­ingly reg­u­lated mar­kets de­mand that op­er­at­ors man­age com­mer­cial risk as they work to­wards their busi­ness...
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02/08/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial...
Part 4 - Ex­pec­ted im­pact of the EU Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Reg­u­la­tion, the meta­verse as a work­place In our first art­icle, we ex­amined the nature of the meta­verse, the shared vir­tu­al world. The emer­gence...
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19/07/2022
Leg­al is­sues in the meta­verse / Part 2 - Trade­marks and copy­right, NFTs...
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13/06/2022
Up­dated CMS Ex­pert Guide to Trade Secrets
From pat­ents to pro­grammes, designs to data, your most valu­able busi­ness as­sets can be the things you can’t put un­der lock and key. But what leg­al re­course do you have to pro­tect these in­tan­gible as­sets...
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26/05/2022
Schrems II: Re­ac­tions to the judge­ment and the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies'...
“Schrems II”: Opin­ions of the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies on Schrems II and re­com­mend­a­tions on the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the judge­ment in in­ter­na­tion­al data trans­fers On 16 Ju­ly 2020, the Court of Justice...
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21/03/2022
Ab­use of law and pro­cess in trade mark can­cel­la­tion pro­ceed­ings – EUIPO...
In a re­cent de­cision (case R 904/2021-1), the Board of Ap­peal of the EU In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Of­fice (EUIPO) con­firmed the find­ings of the EUIPO Can­cel­la­tion Di­vi­sion that, al­though the re­voc­a­tion ap­plic­ant...
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11/03/2022
EU Opin­ion on the Pro­posed Product Safety Reg­u­la­tion
The European Com­mis­sion has put for­ward a pro­pos­al for a new re­freshed Reg­u­la­tion on product safety in line with the New Con­sumer Agenda (the “Pro­posed Reg­u­la­tion”). If passed in its cur­rent form...
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01/02/2022
Uni­fied Pat­ent Court starts fi­nal pre­par­a­tions
The Uni­fied European Pat­ent Court (UPC) has entered the fi­nal pre­par­at­ory phase. Aus­tria de­pos­ited its rat­i­fic­a­tion of the Pro­tocol on Pro­vi­sion­al Ap­plic­a­tion of the Agree­ment on a Uni­fied Pat­ent Court...
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23/12/2021
Min­im­um tax­a­tion of groups and shell en­tit­ies: two new draft dir­ect­ives...
On Decem­ber 22, 2021, the European Com­mis­sion pub­lished two draft dir­ect­ives: the first one is the European ad­apt­a­tion of the mod­el rules pub­lished two days earli­er by the OECD in or­der to guar­an­tee a...
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29/10/2021
EU Ac­tion Plan IP: Trans­par­ency to fa­cil­it­ate ac­cess to SEPs
In Novem­ber 2020, the European Com­mis­sion is­sued the Ac­tion Plan IP to out­line its strategy for the pro­tec­tion of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty in the EU and to fa­cil­it­ate ac­cess to know­ledge, data and tech­no­logy...
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14/07/2021
Ger­man Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court clears the way for the Uni­fied Pat­ent...
The Ger­man Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court (FCC) dis­missed two mo­tions for in­ter­im meas­ures against the Ger­man act ap­prov­ing the Agree­ment on a Uni­fied Pat­ent Court (UPCA). The way is thus clear for Ger­man...
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12/04/2021
EU Di­git­al Ser­vices Act gives new leg­al frame­work for plat­form eco­nomy
The European Com­mis­sion has is­sued the draft pro­pos­al for the Reg­u­la­tion on a Single Mar­ket for Di­git­al Ser­vices (Di­git­al Ser­vices Act or DSA), which cre­ates a new leg­al frame­work for di­git­al ser­vices...
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