Germany

Firm overview

Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling (BDPE) is a genuine service boutique dedicated to serve clients with the explicit promise to guarantee exclusive, personal advice in the long term. Especially when it comes to IP litigation, BDPE ensures that any risk of a conflict of interest is kept as low as possible.

The Firm

The lawyers at BDPE specialise in litigation and prosecution in the field of intellectual property and combine branch-specific and technical expertise with legal competence. The firm’s partners have been well known in their fields for over 20 years and are among the few established experts in their clients’ industries. This means we can support you not only in an advisory capacity, but also as real business partners who understand your business.

The firm’s expertise is focused on patent and utility model law, on trademark, design and copyright law, as well as on competition, domain and employee invention law. BDPE’s client portfolio includes worldwide corporations and leading companies in Germany and abroad. The firm works with an international network of contacts with other law firms and patent attorneys.

Competence

BDPE’s competence lies in legal representation in patent, trademark and design litigation, as well as in copyright and competition proceedings, protecting innovations, new technologies and products, brands and new designs, and handling the corresponding grant, appeal and opposition proceedings. The firm provides strategic advice on patent portfolios and in all areas of IP law.

BDPE advises and represents its clients across a broad range of technical areas: automotive, computer technology, electrical engineering, electronics, food and beverage production, LED technology, mechanical engineering, medical technology, optical technology, photovoltaic technology, physics, semiconductor technology, software, telecommunications and video/audio encoding. BDPE further specialises in the following industries and sectors: consumer goods, energy suppliers and providers, fashion, furniture and household retailers and media and communication agencies. As a matter of principle, we do not exclude any business sector or field of technology.

Team

Our team is currently composed of seven patent attorneys and two attorneys-at-law based in offices in Dusseldorf and Munich, Germany. The firm and its patent attorneys are frequently recommended by renowned publications and ranking organisations, and have garnered a truly remarkable amount of praise since the founding of the firm in 2019.

The firm is already one of the most active in patent litigation before the German courts, especially in connection with mobile communications and electrical engineering patents. Our lawyers have been involved in various high-profile patent litigation proceedings, many of which have concerned standard-essential patents and have had international implications. Partners Friedrich Emmerling and Karl-Ulrich Braun-Dullaeus are highly regarded in Germany, particularly for their work in the telecommunications field and for their activities in German nullity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court.

Diversity

BDPE promotes diversity! Our attorneys and office staff represent a multitude of nationalities from Europe, Asia and the Americas, and speak as many as 10 different languages. This makes it possible, for example, for our firm to interact directly with a broad client base across the globe and understand cultural differences.

We are committed in our hiring practices to seek out diverse lawyers and office staff and to ensure that they are strategically invested in and advanced. We are further dedicated to non-discriminatory hiring practices and believe that a diverse staff is essential to our practice and success.

Firm overview

ARQIS' IP/IT practice covers the full range of IP and IT advice, both contentious and non-contentious, including in particular trade marks, designs, copyright, innovation and technology, trade secrets, patent litigation, licensing, IT projects and unfair competition matters.
The team, headed by partner Marcus Nothhelfer, comprises six highly skilled IP professionals with diverse specialisations. Trade mark and design experts Carolin von Fritsch and Maya Manarivonirina have significantly enhanced their profiles. Paulina Hüttner also contributes her expertise as experienced contract specialist. Rolf Tichy and Julia Wildgans, specialising in IP issues in the digital realm, have deep expertise in the intersection of IP and IT, including areas like AI, cybersecurity, DMA and DSA.
Trade marks, designs and trade secrets are a primary focus, complemented by transactional IP advice. In alignment with the firm's full-service approach to national and international transactions, the IP team plays a vital role in most of the deals managed by ARQIS' esteemed corporate/M&A and PE/VC practices. Embedded as a specialist area within the firm-wide Data.Law focus group, IP/IT advice integrates closely with data protection, as well as commercial and distribution law, compliance, and litigation.
The ARQIS IP team has particular industry experience in automotive and logistics, lifestyle, fashion and beauty, but also in growth sectors such as robotics, e-mobility, AI and digital infrastructure. With regard to the latter, the ARQIS IP practice is well-equipped to act as a versatile one-stop shop, not only for young companies with innovative business models.
In addition to long-standing client relationships with companies seeking specialist IP advice, the team regularly exploits synergies. For instance, many cases arise from post-M&A consultancy or from the firm's Japan desk. The team has also seen a steady increase in matters with a US nexus in recent years.

Firm overview

VOSSIUS is a partnership of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law with offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Basel. Established in Munich in 1961, it is today one of Europe‘s leading IP firms with clients from all over the world.

The firm focuses on high-end advice for innovative companies concerning all questions associated with the protection and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. VOSSIUS has established a global network of partner firms, particularly in North America, Asia and Europe, facilitating reliable and efficient cooperation in transnational issues.

As a full-service IP law firm, VOSSIUS offers their clients the technological and scientific know-how of experienced patent attorneys in combination with the knowledge and competence of highly specialized attorneys-at-law. Based on more than six decades of experience, the firm can provide a comprehensive range of services.

The numerous awards that VOSSIUS has received over the years as well as the consistent top-tier positions in legal rankings showcase the firm’s dedication to high-quality service and outstanding expertise.

We specialize in intellectual property, and that makes us uniquely efficient. Our interdisciplinary teams of experienced patent attorneys and highly specialized attorneys-at-law combine in-depth scientific and technical expertise with excellent legal know-how thus ensuring the best possible advice and comprehensive protection for innovations in all phases of prosecution and litigation.

Our clients include large and mid-sized companies in Germany and abroad, academic and scientific institutions, as well as start-ups. The decades of expertise our firm has amassed allows us to provide high-end advice for innovative companies in all questions relating to intellectual property. Providing consistently high-quality advice is of utmost importance to us and we do it based on more than 50 years of experience and expertise.

Firm overview

Our firm was founded in 1974 and, after continuous expansion, merged with the renowned Munich patent firm Weinhold & Partners in 1997. Meanwhile we have been operating under the name of Winter, Brandl – Partnerschaft mbB. Having our offices in Munich and Freising we are in immediate vicinity to the European Patent Office and to the German Patent and Trademark Office.

After more than four decades of successful work we, being one of Germany’s major patent and law firms, attend to clients of any size and from all economic sectors across the globe. Persistent development and solidification of our departments guarantee your contact partners to be experts even in novel technical areas. We are entrusted with teaching assignments at universities and regularly hold seminars and lectures on intellectual property law. We thereby enjoy solid reputation not only in business circles.