Ian Maywald

Lawyer, Accredited Specialist for Public Procurement Law Partner

Silke Freund focuses on the contentious – sometimes cross-border – enforcement of trade marks or the defense against asserted infringement claims of third parties. She also supports clients in their worldwide trade mark portfolio management in the filing, assignment, and licencing of trade marks as well as opposition, appeal, and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Silke Freund ...

Dr. Wallinger is involved in high profile patent litigation since 1983, including hundreds of patent infringement, patent nullity and patent opposition cases, as well as IP arbitration. A considerable number of these cases were finally decided by the German Federal Supreme Court and are still regarded as landmark decisions. These decisions include, inter alia: “Diving Computer” on the patentability of software programs, “Radio Controlled Clock I, II” on international j...

Dr. Stefan Fickert, born 1969, studied organic, inorganic and physical chemistry at the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg and the University of Rennes, France. He completed his studies with a diploma thesis in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. After obtaining his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Mainz with a main emphasis on the kinetics of heterogeneous reactions and on analytical chemistry, he started working in the field of intellectual property in 1998 in the firm...

Born in 1972, Law School University of Munich (first state examination 1998). Additional studies of business administration at the University Hagen. Doctorate in 2006, certified specialist lawyer for labour law since 2006, certified specialist lawyer for Corporate and Commercial Law since 2021.

Boris Uphoff is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law and Litigation. Boris, who practices law in Munich, Germany, has been recognized since 2018. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Boris is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Peter Johannes Klein has been admitted as a German attorney since 2014. Mr. Klein is specialized in trademark, design, competition and Internet law and strengthens the team of lawyers of VOSSIUS since 2017. He is responsible for the enforcement and protection of trademark, design and competition rights before the courts and his legal consultancy covers the strategic development and management of intellectual property portfolios. Furthermore, Mr. Klein is considered as an expert for topics of ...

Dr. Stefan Rolf Huebner is a Munich-based German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney with more than 20 years of experience. One focus of his work is the multi-jurisdictional prosecution and litigation of intellectual property rights. The other is the legal protection of emerging technologies, where the patent offices' and courts' practice is still in the act of development and where there is a lack established case law. Dr. Huebner is one of the few acknowledged European experts in the...

Dr Alice Broichmann is head of the dispute resolution practice of P+P Pöllath + Partners. She focuses on international arbitration and litigation in the fields of M&A, corporate, and general commercial law. She has been acting as counsel, co-counsel, and arbitrator in several cases (ICC, DIS, Swiss Chambers, and ad hoc ) related to pre-closing disputes and purchase price adjustments as well as representations and warranties in the fields of M&A, corporate litigation and arbitrati...

Tobias Geerling is a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Munich office. His practice focuses on transactional work, advising in particular on tax, cross-border private equity and M&A transactions as well as on international corporate partnership real estate, insolvency and exempt organization tax issues. He has extensive experience handling tax-efficient structuring of M&A transactions, corporate re-organizations, fund structuring and tax-driven derivatives. His experience expands i...