To promote and strengthen the innovative capacity of the Main-Franconian economy, the Center for Trademarks and Patents (ZMP) has been organizing trademark and patent consultation days for over 20 years. 

During these sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about intellectual property rights such as patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs in free one-on-one consultations from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., in collaboration with Main-Franconian patent attorneys and lawyers. 

In confidential one-on-one consultations, you can present your own idea, development, or invention and clarify whether and which intellectual property rights can be claimed. The sessions also explain how and where to conduct prior art searches, the costs associated with filing and maintaining a property right, and the services that attorneys and other service providers can offer. In addition, we will outline ways to quickly and effectively transform inventions into marketable products.

Inventors and innovative companies will also receive information about potential funding programs for securing intellectual property rights, prototype development, or feasibility studies.

Please note that we can only process inquiries from our IHK district.