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About Dr. Alexander Reetz, LL.M.
Alexander Reetz, LL.M. specializes in all aspects of patent law and technical copyright law. He has specific expertise in all aspects of IP litigation, i.e. representation in infringement and nullity/opposition/cancellation proceedings, coordination of patent disputes and cross-border work, evidentiary seizures, border seizures, and enforcement counter-measures.
Dr. Reetz has represented mobile device manufacturers and a network operator in numerous highly litigious matters relating to SEPs and non-SEPs over the past decade. However, his litigation experience extends to various fields of technology, and includes semiconductors and electronics, robotics, mechanical engineering, activity tracking (medical devices and wearables), and software.
Dr. Reetz studied law in Cologne, Aberdeen (UK) and Stellenbosch (RSA). He received his doctorate degree from University of Cologne for a fundamental rights-dogmatic study of the law and history governing university inventors and earned a Master’s degree from the University of Aberdeen (UK). He has joined Wildanger in January 2019 as a partner. He brings with him over 15 years of litigation experience.
Dr. Reetz is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright and the German group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights.
Market recognition
- Recommended Individual – JUVE Patent, 2025
- Silver for Patent Litigation – IAM Patent 1000, 2025
- Patent Star 2025 – IP Stars, 2025
- Listed for Intellectual Property and Telecommunications Law – The Best Lawyers in Germany™, 2026 edition
Dr. Alexander Reetz, LL.M.
Wildanger
Couvenstr. 8
40211 Düsseldorf
Germany
+49 211 49 76 78 30
reetz@wildanger.eu
9 Specialisms
- Mobile Communication
- Digital Communication
- Computer & Software
- Medical Devices
- Renewable Energy
- Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Automation & Robotics
- Energy
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Publications
- Erfindungen an Hochschulen - Zur Geschichte des Hochschullehrerprivilegs und zur Rechtslage nach seinem Wegfall aus der Perspektive des Verfassungsrechts, Monographie, Bonn: Dt. Hochschulverband 2006
- Die Regelung des § 42 Nr. 1 ArbEG auf dem "verfassungsrechtlichen Prüfstand", Wissenschaftsrecht Bd. 41 (2008) S. 188-205
- A PAN-EUROPEAN GUIDE TO OBTAINING EVIDENCE, Managing IP, March 2009
- Die Befugnisse der nationalen Gerichte unter dem EPÜ und des Einheitlichen Patentgerichts (EPG) nach Artikel 63 (1) EPGÜ zum Erlass von Unterlassungsverfügungen – eine rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung, GRUR Int. 2015, 210
- The power of national courts and the Unified Patent Court to grant injunctions: a comparative study Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 10, Issue 3, March 2015, Pages 180–190,
