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About Thomas Schachl

Thomas Schachl is active as a litigator in the IP field for more than 15 years. Since 2014 he is partner with WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN and heads the Legal and Trademark department at WRST.

The main focus of his work is on the enforcement and defence of IP rights in the areas mechanical engineering (automotive), medical devices, IT, Biotech and Pharma.

He is conducting patent infringement trials before German courts and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as well as strategic counselling and coordination of international pending parallel patent infringement and nullity proceedings. On a regular basis, Thomas Schachl advices his clients in IP related transactions, drafting and evaluating all sorts of IP contracts as licensing, confidentiality and R&D agreements. He has also conducted extensive IP damages suits, patent entitlement actions and inspection and evidence taking measures, trade fair seizures as well as preliminary injunction matters and has also conducted several mediation hearings.

He inter alia provides legal advice in patent infringement matters, intellectual property related transactions and IP due diligence and know-how transfer, IP contracts, licensing, confidentiality and R&D agreements, as well as Know-how protection and employee invention matters (remuneration and entitlement matters). He is further counselling in inspection and evidence taking maters, border seizures, trade fair disputes and IP-related unfair competition disputes and he also advices in out of court negotiations, including mediation proceedings and represents clients before German courts and the upcoming Unified Patent Courts.

Thomas Schachl is an attorney-at-law and a certified German IP specialist (“Fachanwalt für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz”) and holds a LL.M. in International Intellectual Property Law focussing on international and national aspects of patent and trademark law. He acts for a wide range of national and international corporations and SME’s and is also a frequent speaker on various IP-related aspects at IP conferences.