We take the current developments in the context of COVID-19 very seriously and monitor them on a daily basis. Protecting our team, our families and our business partners is our absolute priority. We want to help contain the virus, minimizing and slowing down its spread.

We have prepared in time and operate smoothly and with absolute commitment, as usual:

Our emergency response plans are working smoothly and our firm is fully operational.

• Our entire team, not only on the level of our lawyers/patent attorneys, have laptops with unrestricted and secure online access to our IT infrastructure, to the online systems of the Offices and Courts, and to all other relevant IT systems.
• The large majority of our team has been working from home for several weeks. Only a small core team, including our managing partners, are working from our office premises, implementing a split-operations policy. Even in the unlikely event of a complete shut down, we would still be able to seamlessly continue work from home.
• As usual, you can reach us by email and telephone.
• Meetings are conducted in the form of video conferences / conference calls.
• Our productivity remains unaffected.
• A large extent of our work is paperless – unless required otherwise, for example by legal stipulations.
• We adhere to the requirements and recommendations by the authorities and re evaluate our measures on a daily basis to be able to immediately react to the most current developments.

These are difficult times for humanity. We look after each other and are here for you. Take care of each other and yourselves. 

Your team of BARDEHLE PAGENBERG