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HOFFMANN EITLE is a leading European intellectual property (IP) boutique firm with over 140 in-house IP professionals across eight locations: Munich, London, Milan, Madrid, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Barcelona and Amsterdam. The firm is headquartered in Munich, where the majority of its attorneys are based.

Established in 1892, HOFFMANN EITLE has evolved from a single founding member to one of Europe's largest and most distinguished law firms. This growth has been driven by a blend of a long-standing tradition of excellence and a contemporary approach to IP consultation, earning the firm high client satisfaction. The firm's dedication to quality and expertise is reflected in numerous industry awards and top rankings in major industry guides.

HOFFMANN EITLE offers comprehensive European IP services and competent advice in all technical and legal areas. Its team of more than 110 patent attorneys with European and national qualifications and various technical backgrounds files in excess of 4,000 patent applications each year. HOFFMANN EITLE is the market leader in European Patent Office opposition work, being involved in over 5% of opposition cases.

HOFFMANN EITLE is also very active in patent litigation, both in the coordination of multi-jurisdictional disputes and proceedings at the UPC and German courts. In addition, its litigation and contracts team is on hand to provide advice on other IP-related issues, such as competition law, contract law and licensing.

Trademark and design work is another major field of expertise at HOFFMANN EITLE. The firm has a dedicated team of in-house attorneys at law with specialized knowledge in trademark prosecution and litigation.

HOFFMANN EITLE is a multinational firm. Its IP professionals come from a number of countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark as well as from several countries outside of Europe, including the United States, Japan, China and Korea. This means that the attorneys of HOFFMANN EITLE are able to advise clients in many languages, with an understanding of local legal traditions and a network of contacts in their attorneys’ respective home countries.

In addition to HOFFMANN EITLE’s extensive in-house talent, the firm has built up over the years a regional and global network of associate lawyers and law firms which provide HOFFMANN EITLE with any assistance it may require to competently coordinate multinational prosecution and litigation projects for its clients.

The firm’s international client base includes many well-known large corporations as well as small and medium-sized firms from Japan, Korea, China, the United States and Europe.

IP practitioners with technical expertise.

Our international team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law know how to successfully enforce your industrial property claims. We scrupulously and tenaciously get to the bottom of matters, breaking complex cases down in a clear and comprehensible manner, while continuing to bear our clients’ goals in mind. That’s how we find crucial, convincing arguments. And we do so with passion and a fighting spirit — this is our key to success.

Our professional expertise is also highly regarded among German and international professional organizations, at international conventions, and as consultants for the German Federal Government and for patent and trademark offices.

Competency in all fields of IP law combined with sector-specific knowledge

We offer expertise in all areas of industrial property law. Our extensive experience covers an extremely wide range of sectors from telecommunications, electrical engineering and electronics, mechanical engineering, medical technology, chemistry, software and semiconductor technology through to sport, food and fashion.

The partnership of Viering, Jentschura & Partner (VJP) was founded in 1976 by Hans-Martin Viering and Rolf Jentschura. Both of our founding partners are still standing by our clients with words and deeds. Currently, Mr. Jentschura is managing and guiding the firm together with all other partners.

Experienced

More than 40 years later, VJP has become a worldwide operating patent and law firm with international experience. VJP has more than 20 partners and more than 180 highly qualified employees, including patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law, engineers and scientists. The partners of VJP have gathered expertise in the field of intellectual property for many years and worked in part as in-house attorneys. Some of our partners are members of the boards of examination for qualification and admission before the EPO and in Singapore.

The headquarters of Viering, Jentschura & Partner mbB is located in Munich which is also where the firm was founded. The Bavarian metropolis is regarded as the European capital of patent law. This makes us benefit from proximity and close contacts to the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court, and last but not least the Munich Patent Infringement Courts.

International

VJP currently has four branch offices and one representative office internationally. Our branch offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Singapore and our Taiwan (Taipei) representative office make us present at strategically important business locations in Europe and overseas. With its office in Singapore, VJP is located at the hub of Southeast Asia and is considered one of the Top Tier IP boutiques. Our business partners benefit from an established contact network, on-site service and our broad international expertise. 

As a multinational law firm, VJP's IP Professionals come from a variety of countries, including Germany, France, Italy, USA, Japan, Korea, Australia, China, Taiwan and Singapore.

IP competent

VJP stands for international expertise and excellence in intellectual property services. VJP advises clients in all areas of intellectual property law, including preparing, filing, enforcing and managing patents, utility models, trademarks, supplementary protection certificates, designs, (semiconductor) topographies, search services and all types of proceedings before the patent and trademark offices, as well as in litigation before the courts in all instances, including major litigation involving several parallel infringement and nullity proceedings. We carry out our work with passion and the willingness to go the extra mile to achieve optimum results for our clients.

VJP helps protect innovations in all fields of natural science and technology, especially in the fields of physics, chemistry, biotechnology and genetic engineering, pharmaceutics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, medical engineering and software.

Global Network

Over the years, VJP has also built a regional and global network of excellent law firms, providing VJP’s clients through VJP, any assistance needed to coordinate multinational prosecution and litigation projects.

Value Justifies Protection. Our precept, our motivation, and our promise.

df-mp is one of the top firms in intellectual property law with an international outlook and a broad scope of specialized expertise. Globally oriented companies in such practice areas as biotechnology, chemistry, physics, medical devices, mechanical and electrical engineering and pharmaceuticals trust the competent advice offered by our highly-rated team.

Our know-how in a broad range of cutting-edge technologies as well as in-depth experience in intellectual property law enables us to meet our clients‘ high demands for expert counseling. We offer comprehensive advice on the global protection of intellectual property rights, with an emphasis on Europe and the United States. The firm is notable for its competence in natural sciences and high-tech, multilingualism and intercultural sensitivity.

The df-mp attorneys have considerable experience in obtaining and defending clients’ key patents in proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office, as well as challenging the patents of third parties in such proceedings. Notable success has also been achieved by the firm in patent infringement proceedings and nullity actions before the German courts. Another recognized specialty of the firm is client counselling on freedom-to-operate and patent validity matters.

Aside from technology-oriented advice, the attorneys of df-mp develop successful strategies on protecting and enforcing trademark and design patents. df-mp’s trademark and design practice offers our clients world-wide filing and prosecution services. Furthermore, our attorneys also actively prosecute and oppose European and German trademarks and designs as well as enforce and defend them against third parties.

MERH-IP is a mid-size law firm based in Munich, established as a small law firm of four patent attorneys with many years of experience, who were previously partners in three other law firms. Since our founding in 2009, we have grown into a medium-sized law firm with more than 60 employees including 6 partners, 15 patent attorneys and 9 technical experts.

The law firm sees itself as an “intellectual property boutique” specializing in the field of commercial legal protection. Our aim is to be a fast service provider in the field of commercial legal protection, where the quality of the work and a trusting client relationship come first.

Our range of services includes advice and representation in all matters of Intellectual Property including patents, utility models, trademarks, designs, domains, employee’s inventions, copyright and unfair competition law. The firm represents clients ranging from renowned multinational corporations from Europe, the United States and Japan, to medium-sized companies and start-ups.

Our professional understanding of servicing in the IP-field makes very high demands on the quality of our work in view of both technical and legal aspects. Expert knowledge in a broad range of cutting-edge technologies as well as in-depth expertise in intellectual property law with annual filings of around 2,400 patent applications enables us to safeguard your interests in the field of Intellectual Property and to represent any company successfully before courts and offices. Attorneys of our firm have outstanding track records in hearings, trials and oral proceedings.

In addition, partners of the firm are continuously involved in infringement proceedings, mostly in the field of telecommunication and automotive technology.

In total, dispute matters are about 20% of the firm’s work.

We are particularly known for our innovative and efficient strategies prosecuting applications and our above-average patent grant rate, also in technical areas where the rejection rate is usually very high, e.g. computer-implemented inventions.

These particularly good results are based on our “team-approach”, which focuses on additional research and the processing of cases by several team members together. The high quality of the work is also ensured by in-house training seminars, "MERH-IP lunchtime lecture" series.

Maikowski & Ninnemann is a Patent Attorney Law Firm with offices in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main.

Our work covers all core areas of intellectual property rights such as prosecution, litigation and defence of patents, utility models, trademarks and design rights as well as counselling on inventions, trademarks, designs, know-how and licenses. The center of our strategic thinking and work for the last 40 years has been to personally take care of our clients' interests. Whether your company is large or small, you will find a permanent and personal counsel — that is the basis for an individual, trusting relationship that is fundamental to our success together.

With extensive global reach and deep local expertise, we offer an unparalleled
blend of skills to help our clients navigate the complexities and seize the
opportunities of doing business in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow, a joint law venture between Baker McKenzie and
Wong & Leow LLC, stands at the forefront of legal excellence.

We have the capabilities to offer comprehensive advice on both domestic
Singapore law and intricate cross-border issues, ensuring our clients receive
holistic and seamless legal support. As the preferred counsel for numerous
companies leveraging Singapore as a strategic hub for their regional operations,
our lawyers excel in managing multijurisdictional transactions and mitigating
cross-border risks with precision.

Our Singapore office is seamlessly integrated into a global network,
providing on-the-ground expertise across ASEAN countries and access to
Baker McKenzie’s expansive international network. This unique positioning
enables us to adeptly support the diverse domestic and international needs
of our clients, delivering tailored solutions that drive success in a dynamic
global market.

Global Reach with Local Insight. With the combined talent of 2,800 lawyers spanning five continents, we bring a world of relevant experience to every matter. We create clarity from complexity, and forge deep, committed client relationships in the process.

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America

White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

We guide our clients through difficult issues, bringing our insight and judgment to each situation. Our innovative approaches create original solutions to our clients' most complex domestic and multijurisdictional deals and disputes.

By thinking on behalf of our clients every day, we anticipate what they want, provide what they need and build lasting relationships. We do what it takes to help our clients achieve their ambitions.

HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte, founded in 2008, is a full service soft IP firm specializing in trademarks, copyright, media and entertainment as well as unfair competition law, together with related litigation and alternative dispute resolution, contracts and transactions throughout Germany and on EU level. While IP law, in particular strategic trademark portfolio management and global trademark administration, forms the core of the firm’s practice, the firm is equally recognised for its sophisticated handling of complex unfair competition matters.

HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte regularly handles complex cross-border disputes and is involved into high stakes international litigation. Additionally, the lawyers represent their client in proceedings before the German and European Trade Mark Office, the WIPO, the German Federal Patent Court and the European Courts.

HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte five partners, one of counsel, one counsel, six associates, one professional support lawyer and 4 paralegals. Most partners have backgrounds in large international law firms and combine their experience in IP-related commercial matters, transactions and strategic advice with a strong portfolio management and litigation practice advising and representing clients from various industry sectors, such as food and beverages, consumer goods, fashion, luxury, financial institutions, publishing and media/entertainment, games, toys, automotive, logistics, eCommerce, IT and pharmaceuticals. The firm’s practice is evenly balanced between contentious and non-contentious matters. 

HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte maintain close relationships with IP-focused firms (best-in-class) worldwide, enabling the firm to coordinate and manage cross-border matters efficiently and seamlessly. Besides, this allows the firm to act as central coordination hub for international trademark portfolio management, instructing best-in class local counsel across more than 100 jurisdictions worldwide, based on specific matter requirements – always ensuring maximum flexibility and expertise without the constraints of a fixed network or local subsidiaries. As authors of a broad range of publications in the field of intellectual property, unfair competition, and IT law, as lecturers and as frequent conference speakers the lawyers of HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte actively contribute to legal developments at both the national and European levels. 

Lawyers at HARTE-BAVENDAMM Rechtsanwälte are members of INTA, MARQUES, ECTA, GRUR, and other organizations; they serve on committees within these organizations, many in leadership roles, and regularly speak at their events.

For more than a 125 years, the world’s top companies have looked to Gowling WLG to maximise and protect their treasured intangible assets, both at home and abroad. As the global economy grows ever more knowledge-driven and evolutionary leaps in technology transform the competitive landscape, clients continue to rely on us to help them navigate a changing intellectual property marketplace.

Full lifecycle solutions

Every step on the path to success requires a unique approach to your IP assets. From initial drafting and registration to complex enforcement matters, through to the management and monetisation of large international portfolios, our team is equipped to assist you during the entire lifecycle of your IP assets.

We’re pleased to offer strategies and solutions across the full spectrum of IP rights – with core specialisms in trademarks, brands and designs, patents, enforcement and litigation, IP transactions, trade secrets and copyright, as well as advertising and product regulation.

Borderless support

Home to more than 200 IP practitioners around the world, Gowling WLG protects intangible assets across all industry sectors and in more than 100 countries. We offer prosecution services from our offices in Canada, China, the UAE and – via our exclusive association with JurisAsia – Singapore. We match these services with robust enforcement capabilities from these offices, as well from our offices throughout Europe. This platform is complemented by an expansive network of established relationships with some of the top IP practices worldwide – ensuring you receive the very best advice wherever business takes you.

Experience you can trust

From new applications for artificial intelligence to major breakthroughs in pharmacology, it’s vital that your IP adviser be able to recognize the full value of your IP. Harnessing advanced career and educational backgrounds in science, engineering and technology, we work closely with you to develop fulsome strategies for even the most intricate inventions. This is just one of the reasons why, year after year, our professionals are recognised by some of the world’s most respected legal publications.

End-to-end legal services for your business

Outside of our IP service offering, Gowling WLG is equipped to advise you in virtually every area of law relevant to business. For our clients, including other IP firms with whom we work around the world, this is a unique benefit. Beyond the convenience of working with a single service provider, our holistic approach ensures your IP strategy neatly aligns with other areas of your business – from privacy and employment to commercial transactions.

Discover how we can help protect what makes your business unique. Contact a member of our team today.

Epping Hermann Fischer Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (EHF) specializes in all fields of industrial patents. As an internationally active patent law firm, EHF makes a significant contribution to the research and development of their industrial clients by ensuring the protection of their innovations.

Founded in 1999, the firm has grown to a team of about 50 patent professionals, a total staff of 150 employees, and represents clients from all over the world.

Client-oriented solutions and professionally tailored advice are the top priority of EHF, enabled by the wide range of technical expertise and extensive experience of the firm's professionals in science, research and industry.

EHF's team of attorneys, patent professionals, and paralegals complement each other with their in-depth knowledge, experience and qualifications, strengthened by an established network of international IP law firms. EHF is highly responsive to clients' wishes and requirements, with a competent contact person at their disposal at any time.

The services of EHF are based on clearly defined processes that determine workflows and define responsibilities. Thanks to extensive years of service, the firm excels in designing targeted processes for highly effective cooperation between client and firm. Clearly defined interfaces enable efficient, precise and documented communication with the client.

EHF provides intellectual property rights of consistently high quality, customized to meet their clients' specifications. The firm has successfully implemented and operates in accordance with a quality management system which is certified under ISO 9001:2015.

Withers & Rogers is one of Europe’s largest dedicated intellectual property law firms, with offices across the UK, Paris and Munich. Established more than 130 years ago, we remain as passionate as ever about making intellectual property work to our clients’ best advantage. Today, our clients include many renowned, innovative organisations from across Europe, North America and Asia.

Withers & Rogers has a breadth and depth of experience and expertise that we believe is second to none. In addition to our practice groups, we have a number of specialist groups, enabling us to pool our industry knowledge and bring added value for our clients.

We offer a comprehensive service that extends to both securing IP rights – such as patents, trade mark and design registrations for the UK, Europe and further afield – and advising on their exploitation and enforcement. Alongside, we provide proactive support functions that help our clients keep track of their IP, stay on top of its maintenance, and stay in control of cost.

Recognition of the long-term, strategic importance of IP is growing apace, and to help our clients make the most of their creativity, we can build strategies that embrace critical areas like innovation culture, due diligence, freedom to operate, invention management, and patent mapping, to name but a few.

All of our patent and trade mark attorneys are selected on the basis of excellent academic achievement and industry knowledge. This ensures our clients receive a service that delivers both technical excellence and commercial insight.

Zacco is an international full-service IP firm, with over 100 patent attorneys, 70 trademark and design professionals including 40 attorneys at law, 20 experts in corporate domain management and online brand protection, and 20 cybersecurity specialists . We operate globally and in most sectors, and our aim is to view the world as our customers do, building practical IP strategies that secure their ideas, innovations and brand character.

Together we help organisations to develop, manage and protect the value of their IP throughout its lifecycle. Combining physical and digital solutions, from the creation of new assets and identities, to monetisation and enforcement of rights, to ongoing monitoring against infringement and abuse. Zacco, and many of our colleagues, regularly achieve Top Tier or Gold rankings and recommendations from Managing Intellectual Property, World Trademark Review, Intellectual Asset Management and The Legal 500, which we believe independently verifies our commitment to quality, excellence and innovation.

Patent, Trademark and Design Prosecution

Our international presence means a single point of contact can handle prosecution in multiple jurisdictions. Many of our colleagues are European Patent Attorneys, with a growing number authorised to represent clients directly before the Unified Patent Court (UPC). At Zacco, you will find a skilled and knowledgeable IP practitioner able to advise and assist you with all current and emerging fields of technology, whether you work physically in chemistry, greentech, mechanics, materials or biotech, or digitally in digitalisation, software, AI or machine learning, among other areas.

Our trademark and design practice assists all industries with international filing and prosecution, availability and infringement opinions, with a particular focus on EU trademark practice including oppositions, cancellations and appeals before the EUIPO.

We cover multiple European jurisdictions directly including the EUIPO/EPO, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and we operate internationally through a comprehensive network of trusted long-term global partners. We also provide a range of IP portfolio management and IP support services.

Litigation and Disputes

When in need of expertise in IP litigation and dispute matters, clients can rely on Zacco. We are renowned experts in IP, with both the legal and the technical proficiency in-house to successfully represent your interests and enforce your IP rights. This could be directly, in cooperation with leading law firms, or providing litigation and technical support to other counsel or trusted representatives before the authorities.

The legal practice serves all industries with advice and assistance related to IP. This includes due diligence, drafting and negotiation of contracts or licensing agreements, or Data Protection, marketing law and other compliance matters. We also advise on e-commerce, litigation, domain name conflict resolution, customs surveillance and counterfeit prevention, among other areas. Zacco has successfully represented international clients in proceedings before national courts and the European Court of Justice.

Digital Brands, Corporate Domain Management and IT Security

With a significant portion of IP infringement now taking place online, we have introduced services to help clients stay ahead of new and emerging threats to both physical and digital IP. Our Digital Brands team can actively monitor your IP and brand rights online, identifying and removing

potential counterfeits or infringements across online marketplaces, social media and the metaverse. Our Corporate Domain Management experts can assist with the registration or acquisition of traditional and emerging domains, including .brand solutions, alongside more general renewals, portfolio consolidation and email or domain security. We also provide cybersecurity training and testing, digital forensics and secure software development services.

IP360: The Future of Intellectual Property

When the world changes, so do we. The introduction of IP360 recognised that IP rights do not exist within a bubble – they form part of a wider IP ecosystem that encompasses everything to do with protecting the value of an organisation. As we have grown, so too have our services, providing exceptional capability, unique geographical reach, and protection that stretches from the first flash of an idea through patents, trademarks, online brand protection and beyond, across the entire IP lifecycle.

More than 150 years of innovative thinking

We have a long history of protecting, monetising and enforcing IP, and list many leading brands and innovators as clients. Our focus on close collaboration, technical expertise and high quality makes Zacco one of Europe’s leading IP solutions specialists.

V.O. is one of the larger independent Intellectual Property firms in Europe. We offer services in patent and trademark protection, as well as market and engineering intelligence in terms of IP. These include, for example, prosecution and litigation support before the national and European patent offices and courts, such as before the Unitary Patent Court by our team of European patent litigators.

We have wide expertise and many years of experience in Chemistry, Electronics, Life Sciences, Mechanics and Physics. More than 70 attorneys support clients worldwide to maximize the value of their intellectual property.

Clients range from tech starters and midsized innovators to knowledge centers and multinationals. They include leading national and international companies and institutes. With eight offices in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, we operate in a global network of professionals.

D Young & Co is a leading top-tier European intellectual property firm, dedicated to protecting and enforcing IP rights. We have been applying our world-class expertise to take ideas, products and services further since 1891.

Prüfer & Partner mbB is one of Germany’s most renowned IP law firms. It protects clients’ ideas, inventions and product developments around the world and enforces their claims in court – whether technical inventions or other IP rights. Today, nearly 45 employees – including 20 patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law and patent specialists – work for this IP boutique.

Prüfer & Partner was founded in 1972 by patent attorney, physicist and master optician Lutz H Prüfer as a pure patent attorneys’ office, which quickly developed into an internationally focused medium-sized law firm specialising in IP law. A successful generation change took place between 1998 and 2002 when Prüfer & Partner was taken over by patent attorneys Dr. Dorothea Hofer, Jürgen Feldmeier and Dr. Andreas Oser. Since then, Prüfer & Partner has been an established and highly respected medium-sized law firm with a stable global network of partners, which advises clients on the registration of IP rights, supports them in all IP matters and defends and enforces clients’ IP rights in court.

With Prüfer & Partner, you can expect a strong and carefully selected community of patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law and technical specialists. The firm represents its clients’ interests at the highest level. Prüfer & Partner’s patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law are familiar with complex and demanding mandates and work with great commitment.

Diligence and expertise play an important role in industrial property law protection. Prüfer & Partner patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law work strictly to German quality standards: thorough, punctual and cost-efficient.

Over the past 10 years, Prüfer & Partner has continuously expanded its expertise in patent and trademark litigation. Dr. Hofer and Mr. Feldmeier have been advising their client Brother Industries for years in a complex patent dispute concerning ink cartridges. Dr. Oser and Dr. Sonnenhauser support the pharmaceutical industry, including assisting Novartis with building up its patent portfolio. Dr. Sonnenhauser is further very experienced in all facets of prosecution and post-grant proceedings of inventions in the life-science field. 

Dr. Christian Gärtner is very experienced in oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office and German Patent and Trademark Office, and is regularly involved in multi-party proceedings before Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeals. Other Prüfer & Partner patent attorneys, including Christian Einsel, also regularly litigate both active and passive patent lawsuits. In addition, attorney-at-law Markus Adamczyk works for French and Asian clients, among others, in customs actions at the EU borders. As a result, Prüfer & Partner has extensive expertise across the entire IP field.

The Asian region has been playing an increasingly important role in the global economy for many years. It has developed into an important production location for both large and medium-sized companies. At the same time, South Korea and China in particular are rapidly catching up in terms of innovative business models and products. For this reason, Prüfer & Partner has a well-established Asia-desk and continuously cultivates its business, in particular in Japan, China and South Korea. Counselling clients from these countries regarding their IP affairs in Europe and supporting European clients doing business in Asia is a strength of Prüfer & Partner’s practice.

In 2020, Prüfer & Partner completed the transformation to a fully digital office. Thanks to flexible working hours and workflows, we can serve our clients’ needs even more efficiently. 

In 2024, patent attorneys Dr. Susanne Sonnenhauser and Dr. Christian Gärtner, having been working for Prüfer & Partner for a long time, joined the management board of Prüfer & Partner, who strive to maintain and expand existing client relationships.

Looking to the future, Prüfer & Partner plans to further consolidate and broaden its activities in Germany and Europe, to serve not only the international companies but also SMEs and start-ups, helping them protect their innovations and strengthen their position in an increasingly competitive market.

Located in Munich, the German heart of intellectual property, Prüfer & Partner is dedicated to serving its clients as a one-stop-shop IP boutique.

TALIENS is an IP boutique law firm founded in 2017 by German and French IP lawyers. Each counting more than 20 years of experience, the founding partners worked for many years in leading international law firms, bringing to TALIENS the highest quality standards, all the while offering the responsiveness and client focus of a boutique. Rooted in a shared philosophy of complementarity, our sparring partnership mindset expresses itself in a trustful and collegial environment where ongoing learning and excellence are imperatives.

Our team concentrates an extensive multijurisdictional intellectual property expertise built on an accumulated experience: patent and trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and designs, as well as unfair trade practices (unfair competition, passing off, ambush marketing), press and privacy matters.

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN is an internationally active, well-established and consistently top-tier ranking IP law firm located at the heart of ‘Europe’s IP capital’, Munich, beside both the headquarters of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the German Patent and Trademark Office, as well as close to the Federal Patent Court and present Munich IP litigation courts. The firm’s European and German patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law represent clients from all over the world and across a full spectrum of industries. 

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN engages in all matters of intellectual property, including:

• prosecution, enforcement, defence and licensing of patents, trademarks and design rights;
• copyright and unfair competition matters;
• IP-related transactions;
• freedom-to-operate analysis;
• intellectual property in M&A, including IP due diligence and IP agreements; and
• alternative dispute resolution

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN is particularly active in contentious matters, with a focus on patent and trademark litigation before German courts including the German Supreme Court, oppositions and appeals before the EPO and nullity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Supreme Court.

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN counsels clients on IP matters in all areas of technology. When necessary, teams of patent attorneys or technical experts with complementary technical experience or teams of both patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law are formed. WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN ensures that partners or experienced attorneys are actively involved in all aspects of each case to guarantee continuity and the highest quality. The firm’s focus is on providing strategic and comprehensive solutions in line with clients’ corporate goals instead of just ‘managing cases’.

WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN covers a broad range of technical and scientific fields, including:

• mechanical engineering;
• chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology;
• electrical engineering, electronics and semiconductors;
• information technology and communication technology;
• physics and new materials; and
• medical devices.