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Nora Wessendorf is a patent litigator who represents clients in patent, SPC and utility model infringement proceedings before the German courts and the UPC. She joined Taylor Wessing in 2016 and was promoted to salary partner in 2021. As a member of Taylor Wessing’s Patents Technology & Life Sciences team, she advises clients in the fields of, among others, automotive and mechanical engineering, medical technology and digital health applications as well as pharmaceuticals, biotech, chemistry and personalized medicine. As a member of the New York State Bar Association, Nora Wessendorf is also familiar with the concerns of US-based clients involved in German litigation.

She also advises clients on product launches and transactional matters, in particular licensing agreements, R&D agreements and in the context of corporate transactions. Her expertise has been recognized by numerous ranking, among others Legal 500 Germany 2024 (Recommended lawyer for patent litigation (solicitors)).

Nora received a doctorate from the University of Muenster, Germany, after completing a thesis analyzing the impact of the America Invents Act on patent law harmonization in Germany and the US. She also holds an LL.M. in intellectual property law from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C.

She co-authored the chapters on SPCs, patent infringement and evidence in Germany in the 2^nd and 3^rd editions of “A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 2025), and regularly publishes and speaks on issues of pharmaceutical patent law. Nora is also an active member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).