Litigation: Patent Attorneys – Germany 2019
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Bardehle Pagenberg Munich, Düsseldorf
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After another hugely successful year, it is clear that this mixed IP firm remains a market leader in both patent litigation and filing. Compared to many other German IP firms, BaPa has a clear international focus when it comes to litigation. And here it is probably only Hoyng ROKH Monegier that can be said to have the edge over Bardehle. The former is regarded as working more consistently between its international offices, whereas Bardehle’s German lawyers work less frequently with their counterparts in Paris or Verona, for example. Nevertheles...
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Full AnalysisCohausz & Florack Düsseldorf
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The patent attorneys at this Düsseldorf IP boutique have long been market leaders in litigation and prosecution. The firm had an outstanding year in both mobile communication patents and pharmaceuticals. C&F was invloved in the CRISPR Cas cases, which are of huge significance for the sector, and advised its core client Bayer on some key proceedings. C&F was the only firm to advise on both sides in the disputes over connected cars, with its team advising both the plaintiff Nokia as well as car markers Audi, VW and Porsche. This underlines how de...
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Full Analysisdf-mp Dörries Frank-Molnia & Pohlman Munich
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This Munich firm consists purely of patent attorneys but is highly visible the in German litigation market. A number of individuals enjoy an outstanding reputation for pharma and mobile communications cases. Partners such as Dörries, Greiner (both pharma) and Molnia (mobile communications) are often among the most high profile patent attorneys in the major cases. Once considered an NPE firm due to its work for IPCom, Conversant and Unwired Planet, Molnia’s team is increasingly advising on the industrial side in mobile communications suits. The ...
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df-mp Dörries Frank-Molnia & Pohlman Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
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This mixed IP firm is a market leader. It operates one of the biggest European prosecution practices and boasts a very strong position among Japanese companies. The litigation team has an excellent reputation for pharma suits. One client praised the team as “first class, especially in pharma proceedings” and competitors say it is “absolutely top in chemistry and biotech”. The lawyers were recently involved in some prominent cases, e.g. for AstraZeneca and Sanofi. However, the litigators have so far struggled to convince clients from other secto...
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Full AnalysisKönig Szynka Tilmann von Renesse Düsseldorf, Munich
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This patent attorney firm from Düsseldorf stands out for its outstanding reputation for litigation, predominantly for pharma and biotech clients. The name partners in particular are extremely visible and regularly represent core clients such as Bayer and Eli Lilly in oppositions and infringement cases over economically significant medicines. The firm is well versed in coordinating international proceedings – a role which usually falls to lawyers and which shows just how well the boutique’s patent attorneys are anchored among its clients. The pa...
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Full AnalysisMaikowski & Ninnemann Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Munich
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This patent attorney firm has not only a strong position among its clients in mobile communications litigation but is also one of the most strategically active prosecution outfits in the German market. M&N recently opened an office in Frankfurt with the aim of capturing more prosecution work from the Rhine-Main region, but also to be closer to the patent court in Mannheim, which plays an important role in mobile communication suits. The firm represents a long list of notable companies, including Apple, Google, HTC and Vodafone, mainly in defend...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentSamson & Partner Munich
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Once again this Munich patent attorney firm confirmed it is one of the most active litigation outfits when it comes to mobile phone patents, esp. for industry. S&P boasts an established relationship with Apple; the iPhone manufacturer consistently called on S&P alongside other firms for technical issues when defending against a wave of lawsuits from Qualcomm. Wiko and Facebook also retain the patent attorneys for German mobile communication cases. In the first major connected cars battle, the Munich outfit was there from the start, advising Con...
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Boehmert & Boehmert Munich
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This mixed firm is a market leader in patent filing. B&B advises its clients on a broad technical spectrum and is deeply rooted in computer technologies, mobile telecommunications, chips, software, pharma and biotech. Filing work has strongly increased over the past year, mainly as a result of core clients successfully stepping up their activities or transferring a greater part of their patent portfolio to the firm. B&B expanded its team of patent attorneys accordingly and continues to chart a path for growth. The patent attorneys are also rega...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentEisenführ Speiser Bremen, Hamburg
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This IP firm is one of the most active patent outfits outside Munich, due to its intensive patent-filing work on the one hand, and its strong litigation focus (both patent attorneys and lawyers) on the other. The patent attorneys traditionally litigate in oppositions and nullity cases for nationally and internationally renowned clients such as BASF, Enercon and Philips. That they increasingly work with the small team of lawyers on suits for Philips and various licence pools is a consistent development. Eisenführ is thus more active in the growi...
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Full AnalysisGrünecker Munich, Berlin, Cologne
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This patent litigation team is well positioned and clients from the automotive and chip industries have helped by entrusting the practice for years with patent prosecution work. Its successful litigation for Broadcom in the first suit over connected cars patents against the VW Group paid off handsomely: a further suit against BMW and Daimler followed in 2019. The litigation team is thus currently at the centre of the disputes over connectivity in the auto industry and the fact that the firm’s lawyers and patent attorneys work together on the ca...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentVossius & Partner Munich Dusseldorf
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Strong development in the mobile communications sector underlined the status of this mixed firm as a market leader. Not only did the prosecution practice expand its work for heavyweights such as LG and a German mobile phone company, but also the litigation team experienced an upswing. VP’s mixed team is now firmly in the saddle at ZTE, while the three-strong litigation team around Kramer fought for Wiko against both Philips and members of the MPEG-LA pool concerning audio coding patents. This team joined VJP’s Düsseldorf office in early 2018 an...
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Bird & Bird Munich, Hamburg
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This patent practice has long been a market leader. It stands out from competitors with its mixed team of lawyers and patent attorneys advising clients comprehensively on a large technology spectrum. Furthermore, B&B represents its clients across all European jurisdictions when it comes to major proceedings, putting it one step ahead of competitors such as Freshfields. The team around Jüngst and Wolters-Höhne boasts an excellent position in pharma cases. One example is its work for core client Ratiopharm resulting in a highly regarded rulin...
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Full AnalysisBosch Jehle Munich
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The patent attorneys at this Munich IP firm are known for litigation over mobile communication patents. This renown mainly stems from the firm’s successful litigation for non-practising entity SLC, but this flagship case has now largely come to an end. BJ is yet to implement its plans to capitalise on its expertise in mobile telecommunication patents gained through NPE suits and advise more companies. The reason for this departure from NPE work is the firm’s filing work for industrial core clients. The firm is increasingly seen at the side of o...
Full AnalysisGulde & Partner Berlin, Munich
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This Berlin firm boasts brisk filing work for Asian companies and the German car industry and is very active in infringement cases. The litigation team around Scheffler has amassed a good deal of experience in standard-relevant patents for mobile communications through proceedings for flagship client Haier before the Federal Court of Justice. G&P predominantly consists of patent attorneys but the work for Haier helped establish the firm as a mixed litigation team. G&P is heavily involved in proceedings for the tobacco industry, e.g. for Imperia...
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Full AnalysisJones Day Frankfurt, Munich
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This US firm has a large and experienced mixed team in Germany. Compared with some rivals, JD has a broader prosecution practice and a somewhat weaker litigation practice. Predominantly clients from the biotech and pharma sectors call on the firm for international patent cases in multiple jurisdictions, thus profiting from the global network. The practice represented the MSD subsidiary Idenix Pharmaceuticals against Gilead in a high-profile dispute over an expensive hepatitis C drug. Companies also turn to JD for mechanics and engineering paten...
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Full AnalysisMaiwald Munich, Düsseldorf
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With its mixed approach, this Munich firm is geared towards disputes. This work is based on a strong prosecution business, which the practice recently beefed up with young patent attorneys, especially in engineering. Some three years ago Maiwald saw several departures, but these have now been compensated for, and is now close to re-establishing its former full-service approach with a number of technical practice areas which are equally strong. The firm is expanding its client base in digital communication and computer technologies but pharma an...
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View ProfileMeissner Bolte Munich
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The strength of this mixed IP firm is its breadth. It is anchored in numerous sectors and technical fields. The prosecution practice has a solid position among German midsized companies and has good ties to notable international clients such as Facebook and Johnson Controls. Only in pharma is the firm unable to compete with the presence of other Munich outfits such as Hoffmann Eitle. The agile litigation team around Wuttke has not only expanded its headcount, but also its technical breadth. E.g. the team’s work for Deutsche Telekom in mobile co...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentTer Meer Steinmeister & Partner Munich, Bielefeld
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This patent attorney firm has a broad technical spectrum, but attracts attention mainly for Aechter’s and Hollatz’s litigation for pharma manufacturers. Recently work for generics manufacturers predominated. For example, Ter Meer was active for Accord, Hexal and 1A Pharma in numerous pharma cases. This is thanks to the excellent ties to lawyer firms such as Taylor Wessing. Although the firm filed many patents for LG, the patent attorneys are still not on the radar for mobile communication suits. Ter Meer has a broad prosecution practice outside...
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Full AnalysisWallinger Ricker Schlotter Tostmann Munich
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This mixed Munich IP firm is well established with its good reputation for litigation. The prosecution practice covers a broad range of technical fields. The work of the patent attorneys is clearly dominated by pharma and biotech on the one hand and the auto industry on the other. WRST bolstered the former by appointing a fourth equity partner, but the firm is predominantly known for the latter. The mechanics team is highly active in nullity and infringement cases. At present, classic litigation between suppliers over auto parts predominates. I...
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Full AnalysisWuesthoff & Wuesthoff Munich
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The Munich patent-attorney firm has a strong focus on disputes. Thanks mainly to Katérle’s litigation in infringement cases concerning mobile communications patents, W&W enjoys a good reputation. He continues to represent LG in two suits against NPEs Fipa and Conversant, together with external lawyers. The firm is also advising Asus in a major mobile phone dispute. The combination of experience in mobile communications litigation and very close ties to auto suppliers makes the firm a good candidate for connected car suits. Up to now, W&W has ma...
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Andrejewski Honke Essen
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This Essen-based firm is one of the best known patent-attorney litigation teams in the country. Not not did they conduct a host of oppositions for core clients, but increasingly infringement cases as well. The team recently won an 18-year battle for its most important client Novoferm against Hörmann over electric garage doors. AH represented other clients such as ThyssenKrupp in oppositions before patent offices, without having filed the patents beforehand. In general, however, the firm advises predominantly German clients on technical protecti...
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Full AnalysisBraun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling Munich, Düsseldorf
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A patent attorney firm specialising in patent litigation, almost exclusively active in mobile communications and electronics is something unusual in the German market. And yet it was with this strategy that this new firm (effectively a merger between two teams, one in Düsseldorf, one in Munich) has begun to take shape The two patent attorneys Braun-Dullaeus and Emmerling have an excellent reputation for litigation in mobile communication cases. They represent Deutsche Telekom and Huawei on a regular basis. Both clients are two of the most frequ...
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View ProfileDompatent von Kreisler Selting Werner Cologne
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The Cologne IP firm is one of the most active prosecution outfits in the Rhine-Ruhr region, with an outstanding reputation in chemistry and pharmaceutical patents. However, because its most important client in the mobile communications sector, Asus, faces further suits from Philips, the patent attorneys were more active in infringement cases last year. Generally, the patent attorneys work alongside external lawyers, e.g. with Taylor Wessing for Asus. Dompatent’s own lawyers are exclusively active in soft IP cases. The firm has traditionally see...
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Full AnalysisDreiss Stuttgart
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The size of this patent-attorney firm in Stuttgart has allowed it to be active on a broad range of work with notable litigation firms in infringement cases, e.g. glue manufacturer Uhu with Hoyng ROKH Monegier in a case against Henkel. Work in China has increased considerably, with the firm able to rely on an informal network for infringement cases before Chinese courts. Dreiss coordinates proceedings, e.g. for engineering company Ersa, vacuum specialist J. Schmalz and Swiss auto supplier Kinetix. With ist strong share of filing work, the firm i...
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Full AnalysisGlawe Delfs Moll Hamburg, Stuttgart
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With its office in Hamburg, this patent attorney firm has a strong filing practice in North Germany. It also has a renowned office in Stuttgart with good ties to south German midsized tech companies and a focus on auto suppliers. The firm’s prosecution work increasingly gives rise to litigation, for example the patent attorneys represented Carl Zeiss. The highlight was the litigation for Carl Zeiss in the German proceedings against Nikon concerning lithography machines for computer chips. The good ties to a Munich litigation firm granted GDM ac...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentLorenz Seidler Gossel Munich
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The team at this Munich IP boutique enjoys a good reputation for litigation. It has two very different specialties. One the one hand, LSG is active in mobile communication suits with a mixed team around highly experienced litigators. The most important long-standing client here is O2/Telefónica, which LSG successfully defended against a class-action lawsuit from Intellectual Ventures. On the other hand, the patent attorneys’ dispute work is based on a brisk filing business with a high number of priority applications at the German Patents and Tr...
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Full AnalysisMichalski Hüttermann & Partner Düsseldorf, Munich
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This patent attorney firm is the third largest and an excellently positioned prosecution outfit in Western Germany alongside Dompatent and Cohausz & Florack. Its highly active teams in Düsseldorf advise a broad technical spectrum of chemistry and biotech patents, as well as the auto industry. Software patents also play a significant role. MHP underscores its regional strength with a small office in Essen. The Frankfurt office is also relatively new and advises a chemicals company in Southwest Germany. MHP’s driving force is in Düsseldorf, howev...
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Full AnalysisMitscherlich Munich
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This Munich firm has a very active filing practice with a broad technical spectrum. The patent attorneys are also highly active in litigation, Huawei being a particular highlight: Mitscherlich represented the Chinese mobile phone manufacturer together with Bird & Bird in the defense against a series of suits from MPEG-LA over video compression. Another important litigation client for the patent attorneys is Nestlé in the years’ long dispute with ECC over coffee capsules. Mechanics patents play a key role here. In patent prosecution, Mitscherlic...
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Full AnalysisPrinz & Partner Munich, Hamburg
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P&P is dominated by patent attorneys and is firmly anchored among automotive clients. It has a particularly strong position in prosecution work for suppliers, including oppositions and nullity suits. The patent attorneys represented Texas Instruments as co-litigator of Audi/VW in the first German connected cars case. Classic auto technology disputes predominate, but the firm has a much greater breadth than its extensive advice to the auto industry would suggest. Consumer goods manufacturers such as Nike and electronics specialists such as Rhode...
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Full AnalysisUexküll & Stolberg Hamburg, Munich
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The patent attorneys at this Hamburg IP boutique are a firm fixture on the side of notable international companies from the pharma, biotech and chemicals sector. U&S conducts oppositions and patent applications for these clients. The firm is involved in some high-profile proceedings for Monsanto. Clients such as Exxon and Presspart extended their long-standing cooperation with the firm. In infringement proceedings, the patent attorneys were involved in a major case for Medac against Eli Lilly concerning pemetrexed. The headcount has remained st...
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Full AnalysisZimmermann & Partner Munich
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The Munich patent attorney firm has long stood out for its intensive work for Samsung as defendant in infringement cases. The patent attorneys are currently battling a number of NPEs (e.g. Fipa) on behalf of the Korean company, always at the side of external lawyers. On the whole, Z&P has a very active prosecution practice covering a wide range of technolgies. The patent attorneys are also active in nullity suits. In line with the firm’s overall strategy, the patent attorneys are active in litigation beyond the mobile phone sector, for example ...
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Hamm & Wittkopp Hamburg
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This patent attorney firm is renowned for its litigation in infringement proceedings over pharma and biosimilar patents. Wittkopp, for example, represented Mylan recently in an economically significant case against Teva concerning a multiple sclerosis medicine. Furthermore, his litigation for core clients Stada/Aliud in the suit against MSD over a cholesterol-lowering drug was a remarkable success. In these proceedings H&W’s chemists and biochemists regularly work with lawyers from large firms such as Bird & Bird and Taylor Wessing. In ...
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Full AnalysisKeil & Schaafhausen Frankfurt
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As a patent attorney firm in prosecution and litigation, this Frankfurt outfit has a strong reputation. In addition to oppositions and nullity suits, the patent attorneys broadened their activity in infringement cases at the side of some renowned litigation firms. Dahmen for example, worked with Arnold Ruess to successfully defend a Sanofi patent against Mylan. Besides its litigation work, the firm captured prosecution clients as result of the merger with another Frankfurt outfit the previous year. K&S also managed to step up its work for A...
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Full AnalysisLederer & Keller Munich
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This Munich-based patent attorney firm is renowned for its in-depth know-how when it comes to pharma, biotech and chemistry patents. The patent attorneys have in particular acquired an excellent reputation for pharmaceuticals proceedings. Prominent partner Best is frequently seen at the side of well-known law firms representing generics manufacturers, e.g. Hexal against Eli Lilly and Ratiopharm against AstraZeneca. Furthermore, not only German clients but also clients from the US and Japan often turn to the team for filing and oppositions.
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Full AnalysisViering Jentschura & Partner Munich, Düsseldorf
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This firm consistently racks up a high number of patent applications and last year the patent attorneys also attracted attention at the German courts for the first time for representing VW and Audi in the first big case over connected cars. The litigation for VW marked a real coup for the firm in major infringement cases. After being settled VJP has not been involved in similar cases this year. The firm began to step up its litigation with its mixed practice a while ago. Some of its patent attorneys are active in oppositions and nullity suits, ...
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Full AnalysisWachenhausen & Kollegen Munich
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Since its inception in early 2017, this small Munich patent attorney outfit has become a serious contender in litigation. One focus lies on mechanical engineering, often on the interface with digital technology and IT. Clients and competitors alike praise the experienced patent attorneys, which regularly appear at the side of law firms in infringement cases, e.g. for core client HTC concerning mobile communications and lighting technology for smartphones. In both litigation and prosecution work, the firm takes a distinct international approach,...
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Full AnalysisWeickmann & Weickmann Munich
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This Munich patent attorney firm is known for litigation concerning pharma and chemicals patents. The team conducts many oppositions and nullity suits for core clients, and regular infringement cases with external lawyers, e.g. Klaka. The firm’s best-known client is SRAM in mechanics; WW has represented the company for many years against Shimano concerning innovative bicycle components. Now the firm files patents for SRAM as well. The medium-sized filing practice also advises many international clients. The client list increasingly includes sta...
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Full AnalysisSponsored ContentWitte Weller & Partner Stuttgart
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The patent attorneys at this Stuttgart IP boutique are frequently active in proceedings. On behalf of Diazyme, for example, the team managed to destroy two patents belonging to competitor Brahms in the dispute with Diasys. The patents protected in-vitro test kits for diagnosing blood poisoning. In addition, competitors praise the team for its prosecution work. The patent attorneys advise a good deal more international corporates than other outfits in the region. The core client list includes heavyweights such as Philipps and Kawasaki.
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Full AnalysisThe selection of law firms in the above table reflects the research of the editorial staff at JUVE and is based on interviews with clients, lawyers and academics. It remains a subjective view and implies no disparagement of any firm not mentioned here but which is nevertheless active in this field. The firms are alphabetically listed within the groups. To find out more about our rankings and research criteria please click here and here.
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