HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Olomouc, Ostrava (Czech Republic), Bratislava (Slovakia) and a new representative office in Frankfurt (Germany), has a team of 350 lawyers, tax advisors and patent attorneys, approximately 200 associates and a total of 500 employees, and is the largest independent law firm in Central Europe.

This has allowed us to build the largest intellectual property team with unparalleled specialization and experience in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 25 specialized IP lawyers offer an unbeatable degree of specialization in individual fields, with detailed knowledge of the market and the latest trends.

We advise the largest multinational corporations, established family-owned businesses and individuals; in a number of cases we have set the policy for the protection and monetization of intellectual property in start-ups, helping them to succeed and grow.

HAVEL & PARTNERS provides a complete service in the area of patent protection in all technical fields, validation of European patents, supplementary protection certificates, utility models and designs.
HAVEL & PARTNERS has also created a fully dedicated IP litigation team, specialized in all types of IP litigation before national and international courts and arbitration tribunals.

HAVEL & PARTNERS also has experts dedicated to IP transactions and technology transfer on a global scale, using various structures and vehicles, as well as designing licensing and other exploitation of internal or acquired IP. We are also very active in the venture capital and start-up world.

We are proud of our expertise and share our know-how on many occasions through our own training initiative, HAVEL & PARTNERS Academy, or by organizing workshops for students at universities, for start-ups or for the scientific community to increase their IP awareness.