GERMANY Law and Practice Contributed by: Michael Rüberg, Daniel Herrmann and Christoph Angerhausen, Boehmert & Boehmert
Boehmert & Boehmert is one of the largest and best-known firms for intellectual property in Europe and provides a full spectrum of legal services relating to patents, trade marks, copy- right and neighbouring fields. With more than 80 professionals, working from several offices across Germany and worldwide, the firm is well equipped to advise and represent its clients in all technical areas and industries. Building on more than 90 years of excellence, the range of services provided by the firm’s fully inte- grated teams of patent attorneys and lawyers
spans both patent and trade mark prosecution and litigation to advisory services in the fields of copyright, contracts, employee inventions, licensing, domain disputes and many more. The firm has proven and continuously applies its expertise in traditional and young industries, and across borders. Most recently, the firm has been among the first to become active in the newly established UPC system and continues to successfully represent its clients in this new legal environment.
Authors
Michael Rüberg is an attorney at law and a partner at Boehmert & Boehmert. He
Daniel Herrmann is a German and European patent attorney and a partner at Boehmert & Boehmert. He advises start-ups, SMEs and large corporations, both domestic and foreign, in
focuses his work on disputes relating to technical intellectual property rights. With more than 15 years of experience in this field, both as outside and in-house counsel, Michael represents his clients in all German infringement courts and in the UPC. He frequently advises on cross-border strategies, as well as on the out-of-court resolution of conflicts. Michael has been recognised for his aforesaid work through numerous awards in recognition of his pragmatic and solution- oriented approach to resolving disputes, as well as his profound understanding of clients’ needs.
matters of patents and utility models. He focuses on the development of global patent strategies with an emphasis on computer- implemented inventions, medical devices and physics. In this context, he represents clients in filing, opposition and appeal procedures before the European Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the Federal Patent Court in Germany. He also performs proper freedom-to-operate analyses.
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