{"id":4972,"date":"2022-07-26T15:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/legal-areas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:28:38","slug":"legal-areas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/en\/our-practice\/legal-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<!-- headerslider-->\n<section id=\"block-headerslider-block_1b884b09613f8aad37d63e344b9b21da\" class=\"block headerslider page-section  \">\n    <div class=\"container-fluid \" >\n    <div class=\"row headerslider-container\">\n        \n    <div>\n    <div class=\"slider-item bg-bottom\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/pruefer.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Small_2-1920x1136.jpg)\">\n   \n    \n    \n    <\/div>\n    \n\n    \n    \n    <\/div>\n           \n       \n    <\/div>\n    \n    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<!-- Text-->\n<section id=\"text-block_3e1b81f937851196a0b1122cab9e1524\" class=\"block text page-section bg-light\">\n    <div class=\"container normalpadding\">\n                <div class=\"text-center row justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n                \n                                    <h1 class=\"section-heading   col-lg-10 mx-auto \">You develop, we protect<\/h1>\n                    <div class=\"w-100\"><\/div>\n                                                                                <div class=\" col-lg-10  mx-auto text-center\"><p>From small and medium-sized enterprises, industrial groups, universities to start-ups &#8211; your ideas and inventions are worth protecting. 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