JUVE Patent
Dr. Roland Kehrwald
Wildanger Kehrwald Graf v. Schwerin
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About Dr. Roland Kehrwald
Dr. Roland Kehrwald specialises in the areas of patent, trademark, utility model and unfair competition law, providing advice and conducting litigation for clients. He has many years of experience in many infringement proceedings in all major technical fields of patent law, especially information technology, genetic and electrical engineering and medical technologies.
Dr. Kehrwald is heavily involved in a series of major international patent disputes with parallel proceedings around the world and represents a substantial number of international clients. In addition to patent infringement cases, he collaborates on proceedings before the Federal Patent Court, the Federal Supreme Court and the EPO.
Dr. Kehrwald is listed as one of the top 12 leading senior partners among trial attorneys in patent law (JUVE 2018/2019; 2019/2020). There he was praised by a competitor for being “excellent both in writing and at the hearing”. Dr. Kehrwald is one amongst the five lawyers being included in the “Hall of Fame” for Patent Litigation, Germany, in The Legal 500.
After completing his German and French high school diploma in Saarbrucken, Dr. Kehrwald studied law in Munich and Geneva and conducted research in Moscow from 1987 to 1988 in connection with his doctorate he earned in Munich in 1989. He joined Günther Wildanger’s firm in 1991, where he has specialised in patent, trademark, utility model and unfair competition law ever since.
Dr. Kehrwald is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright, the German group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, the European Patent Litigation Lawyers Association, the German Association of Intellectual Property Professionals, the Intellectual Property Owners Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
