HAMBURG LOCAL DIVISION Law and Practice Contributed by: Lukas Wosnitza, Michael Schneider, Sönke Scheltz and Désirée Heintz, Eisenführ Speiser
Eisenführ Speiser has been counselling clients in all fields of intellectual property (IP) for more than 50 years. At the firm’s offices in Bremen, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg, more than 280 members of staff, including more than 70 patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law, work to enforce the IP rights of national and international clients. Over the past two decades, building on its tra - ditional strengths in the field of IP prosecution, Eisenführ Speiser has acquired an outstanding reputation as a litigation firm. The team handles
cases before German and European courts, and of course also before the UPC. Eisenführ Speiser is proud to be playing a significant role in the development of the UPC. The firm’s ex - perienced litigation team is currently ranked among the top 15 most active firms before the UPC, acting for both claimants and defendants. These cases span a broad spectrum of tech - nical fields, including information technology, medical devices, electrical engineering and me - chanical engineering.
Authors
Lukas Wosnitza is an attorney- at-law in Eisenführ Speiser’s patent litigation group, joining as
Michael Schneider is a partner at Eisenführ Speiser and an attorney-at-law in the firm’s patent litigation group. He brings years of experience in both patent infringement and nullity
an associate in 2024. He has experience in cross-border litigation campaigns (eg, for international clients before the German courts and the UPC) as well as in representing German medium-sized companies in complex, company-tailored approaches against competitors. Lukas’s work includes detailed fact-finding and the preservation of evidence, developing suitable procedural strategies, dealing with antitrust issues and enforcing patent rights, in particular through preliminary injunctions. Another focus of his work is contractual matters, in particular on the drafting and negotiation of licence and co-operation agreements. Lukas also has extensive expertise in employee invention law and trade secret protection.
proceedings, including related licensing matters. Michael’s expertise includes conducting and co-ordinating cross-border patent litigation proceedings before the German courts and the UPC, in particular for US and other international clients. The focus of his activities is medical device and chip technology as well as mobile communications. As such, Michael’s field of practice includes the enforcement and FRAND licensing of standard-essential patents (SEP), both in the field of handsets as well as throughout the automotive value chain.
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