About Us

Meissner Bolte is one of the leading IP law firms in Germany. For over a century our eleven offices in Europe have been advising national and international clients in all areas of intellectual property. From prosecution to litigation and enforcement, we make sure that your ideas remain what they are by nature – unique. Your goals guide our actions to maximise your assets. Our IP recipe is the interplay of passion, commitment and know-how.

At Meissner Bolte we have about 70 highly-qualified patent attorneys and lawyers with knowledge in the technology, science and legal sectors. We focus on competencies in our teams and pull together with you for your success. We also boast a number of Japanese and native English-speaking attorneys and specialists to support our international clientele. Thanks to our interdisciplinary teamwork, we have an overview of the entire spectrum of IP rights and the legal possibilities of the individual fields of law, such as patent, trademark and design law, to create a powerful and successful prosecution and litigation strategy covering the entire spectrum of IP protection.

We are committed to informing our clients, business partners and employees regularly and accurately about the latest develop­ments in IP rights. We regularly offer and hold external seminars, internal training, lectures and newsletters written by renowned experts in their field to provide you with all important decisions in the German and European IP arena and how this affects immediate and future practices.

Our services include:

• physics
• electrical engineering
• computing and information technology
• mechanical engineering
• medical technology
• chemistry and pharmaceuticals
• biotechnology
• materials science

Our offices:

• Augsburg
• Bremen
• Düsseldorf
• Egmating
• Gera
• Halifax
• Hamburg
• München
• Nürnberg
• Osnabrück
• Schorndorf

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