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About Dr. Dirk Bühler
Dirk Bühler specializes in the management of product-related patent portfolios worldwide as well as the associated opposition, nullity and infringement proceedings in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and personalized therapy and diagnostics. He regularly advises clients on complex SPC matters and freedom-to-operate strategies in these areas.
His extensive experience enables him to bring strategic IP consultancy and patent portfolio creation/management into alignment with the economic interests of his clients in a rapidly changing market environment. Clients value his interdisciplinary approach of combining questions relating to patent law with regulatory requirements for marketing authorization of medicinal products in order to achieve the fullest protection possible.
Dirk has received numerous awards for his professional activities as patent attorney and regularly publishes articles on various aspects of patent law.
Dr. Dirk Bühler
Maiwald Intellectual Property
Elisenhof, Elisenstraße 3
80335 Munich
Germany
+49 (0)89 747 266 0
Buehler@maiwald.eu
4 Specialisms
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Food Chemistry
- Pharmaceuticals
Awards
- Listed in the WirtschaftsWoche "Die renomiertesten Patentrechtsanwälte" 2020
- "Highly recommended attorney" in JUVE Patent Rankings Germany 2021, 2022, 2023
- "Frequently Recommended Attorney" in JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2018/2019, 2019/, 2020/2021, 2021/2022
- Recommended in Legal 500 EMEA 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Recommended in Legal 500 Deutschland 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- MIP IP Star 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- For many years listed in IAM Patent 1000 “World’s Leading Patent Professionals”
- Recommended in Handelsblatt | Best Lawyers „Deutschlands Beste Anwälte" 2022, 2023, 2024
- Ranked as "Excellent" in the Leaders League Rankings Germany 2022, 2023 and 2024 in the category Patent Prosecution and recommended in the categorie Patent Litigation, "Highly recommended" in the category Healthcare, pharmaceuticals & biotech
- Gelistet in Who’s Who Legal, empfohlen in der Kategorie "IP" 2024
Publications
- Handbuch des Patentrechts, Haedicke/Timmann (eds.), C.H.BECK, 2012 (together with Johannes W. Bukow et al.)
- Federal Supreme Court endorses functional claim language, Managing Intellectual Property, 12/2013
- Patent Law – A Handbook on European and German Patent Law, Haedicke/Timmann (eds.), C.H.BECK, 2014 (together with Johannes W. Bukow et al.)
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPC), C.H.BECK, 2016 (jointly published with Marco Stief)
- CJEU asked to clarify functional definition issue, Managing Intellectual Property, 01/2018
- CAR-T-Zelltherapien – Herausforderungen beim IP, BioTechnologie Jahrbuch, 2019
- Handbuch des Patentrechts, Haedicke/Timmann (eds.), C.H.BECK, 2nd edition 2020 (together with Johannes W. Bukow et al.)
- Handbuch des Patentrechts, 2. Auflage, 2020
