Anna Wolters-Höhne

Bird & Bird - Germany

Partner

Am Sandtorkai 50 Hamburg, 20457 Germany

Notable practitioner

German
English
French


Jurisdictions:

Germany

Practice areas:

Intellectual property disputes
Life sciences IP
Patent disputes

Industry sectors:

Biotechnology
Chemistry
Life sciences
Medical devices
Pharmaceutical


In my 20 years as a patent litigator, I have been representing clients from all industry sectors in internationalpatent disputes. With a particular focus on life sciences clients, I have been in volved in numerous landmarkpatent cases and important innovator vs. innovator disputes.

Advising our national and international clients from a variety of sectors in patent law, my practice focuses on patent infringement and damages proceedings, nullity actions and compulsory license cases before the Germancourts as well as opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and UPC advice.

With my significant litigation expertise, I have been able to win numerous landmark preliminary injunction proceedings for our clients, particularly in the pharmaceutical and medical devices field.

My practice covers the coordination of large cases across jurisdictions and practices with a broad international network of counsel, patent attorneys and experts in the technical, economic and legal fields.

My advice includes the development of offensive as well as defense patent strategies for clients from all industry sectors.

My clients appreciate my responsiveness, economic understanding and reliability as well as my dedication to winning their case. For me, success is a team effort: My "one team approach" includes not only my highly qualified team here in my office, but also each and every one who works on the case globally, whether it is a lawyer, patent attorney or assistant from our Bird & Bird network or from a competitor. Most importantly, the client with his expertise is the centre of it. We focus on using all our energy to win the case together as one team.

  • Representing US pharma company in innovator vs. innovator patent disputes relating to antiviral drugs, including aspects of equivalent infringement resulting in worldwide settlements between the parties.
  • Representing an international pharma client in several SPC disputes, in landmark cases developing new case law on second medical use patents as well as in various preliminary injunction cases.
  • Representation of US medical device company in compulsory licence proceedings before the Federal Patent Court.
  • Representing global chemical company on a series of patent infringement and invalidity actions relating to various chemical products for catalytic applications in the automotive sector.

  • Dr. iur. - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - 2005

  • Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)

  • German Bar Association, 2004