As 2026 begins, BARDEHLE PAGENBERG promotes eight attorneys: Pascal Böhner is now an equity partner, three associates and one counsel have been appointed as partners, and three associates have been promoted to counsel. At the same time, Tobias Kaufmann has assumed the role of managing partner.
As the newly elected managing partner, Tobias Kaufmann is pleased to announce more promotions within its team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law than ever before in the firm’s history: “Eight promotions at the beginning of the year send a strong signal that our team is evolving in a highly future-oriented way, driven by its own strength.”
Pascal Böhner, previously a salary partner of the firm and expert in unfair competition, trademark, design, and domain law, takes on additional responsibility as equity partner.
Dr. Ronja Schregle, Dr. Martin Drews, Daniel Werner, and Dr. Marius Fischer have been admitted to the partnership. Dr. Michael Waschak, Siho Chang, and Dr. Philipp Bovenkamp have been promoted to counsel. …
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Pascal Böhner Pascal Böhner’s practice focuses on trademark law, design law, unfair competition law, and copyright law. In trademark and design law, one of his focuses is on the judicial and extrajudicial enforcement and defense of IP rights in infringement, opposition, and nullity proceedings. In addition, Pascal Böhner has extensive experience in the strategic development and management of intellectual property portfolios, from prosecution strategy and ongoing portfolio maintenance to the valuation of IP portfolios. In competition law, Pascal Böhner advises primarily on issues of protection from imitation and advertising law, regularly including interfaces with regulatory requirements, for example in pharmaceutical law or food law. His other areas of practice include domain law. Pascal Böhner primarily counsels clients in WIPO arbitration proceedings, where he has also been active as a domain arbitrator (panelist) since 2025. Additionally, Pascal Böhner advises on licensing and antitrust matters as well as IT law. Pascal Böhner brings particular industry experience in the areas of fashion, entertainment, sports and leisure equipment, food, and consumer goods. |
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Ronja M. Schregle, Dr. jur. Ronja Schregle’s practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation. She has special experience in national and cross-border patent infringement proceedings, the strategic protection of confidential information in litigation, and damages proceedings in the technology and life sciences sector. She regularly writes publications on current developments in her field and is a speaker at national and international conferences. Her professional expertise is rooted in her academic work at the Chair of Corporate and Intellectual Property Law at the Technical University of Munich and at the Institute for International Law at LMU Munich. She gained international experience, inter alia, at the Economic Department of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York. Ronja Schregle advises clients in German, English, and Spanish. |
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Martin Drews, Dr. jur. Dr. Martin Drews is an attorney-at-law who specializes in national and cross-border patent litigation. He represents clients in complex patent infringement and nullity proceedings before the Unified Patent Court, German courts as well as in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office. His main areas of expertise are automotive, biotechnology, medical technology, and telecommunications. Martin Drews has vast knowledge of German and European research and innovation systems, which he gained as a personal advisor to a Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and as a research policy officer of one of the largest parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag. |
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Daniel Werner, M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) In his daily work, Daniel Werner draws on his long-standing experience as a professional patent consultant and on knowledge gained from a large number of cases successfully concluded in various fields of Intellectual Property: Patent prosecution, expert opinions regarding patent law or technology in patentability, validity and FTO matters, Competitive Intelligence as well as patent searches. He handles patent infringement and invalidity proceedings before the Unified Patent Court and German courts as well as opposition and appeal proceedings before the competent European and German offices. Daniel Werner specializes in electrical engineering and information technology in general as well as in semiconductor technology, telecommunications and mobile communications, soft- and hardware, signal processing, electric machines, actuator design, and in parts of the manufacturing sector (e.g. textiles and fashion items). |
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Marius Fischer, Dr. jur., M.Sc. (Physik) Marius Fischer combines extensive experience in both prosecution and litigation matters. He advises and represents clients before German courts, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). Marius Fischer combines strong technical insight with in-depth knowledge of patent law. His technical background is rooted in his studies of physics and his work as a developer for a successful Munich-based start-up. He laid the foundation for his expertise in patent law even before he began working as a patent attorney, during his doctorate in law. Marius Fischer’s technical focus areas include electrical engineering, digital and information technology, and physics in general, with particular emphasis on telecommunications as well as audio and video coding. He also regularly advises clients in the fields of medical technology and sporting goods, and is likewise trusted by companies in the automotive and aerospace industries. |
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Michael Wolfgang Waschak, Dr.-Ing. Dr. Michael Wolfgang Waschak is a European Patent Attorney and focuses on the field of electrical engineering, particularly telecommunications, processor technology, audio and video coding, control engineering, and electric machines. In addition to handling patent prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, he regularly participates in technologically complex patent infringement proceedings before all relevant civil courts and parallel invalidity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court. Dr. Waschak draws on knowledge and experience from his career in industry, having worked as an engineer, project lead, and program manager. He was responsible for multidisciplinary industrial research and development projects in international settings on several continents. Dr. Waschak is the inventor of several patents as well as author of scientific publications in the field of electronic engineering with a focus on electrical drives and renewable energies. |
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Siho Chang, M.Sc., LL.M. Siho Chang has had extensive experience in Korean, EP, and US patent prosecutions, appeals and many other IP-related opinion work regarding validity and infringement for various domestic and foreign clients. He specializes in electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, and standard-essential mobile communication patents. Siho Chang has a diverse academic background in electronics engineering, information communication, and law. He has also been licensed to practice in different jurisdictions including Korea, USA, and EPA. |
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Philipp Bovenkamp, Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc. Philipp Bovenkamp handles comprehensive patent prosecution proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trade Mark Office on behalf of our clients. His work further focuses on the analysis of intellectual property rights in the context of infringement and validity opinions and on handling complex patent infringement and invalidity proceedings before national courts and the Unified Patent Court on behalf of our clients. He acquired the necessary technical knowledge through his years of working for our clients and his studies of physics (fields of focus: medical physics, solid-state physics, and nanotechnology). |
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