Elevating
your IP.
Heritage
Our roots lie not in the law firm library, but in industry. As many of us have orchestrated IP departments of global corporations, we know the difference between a granted patent and a genuine market advantage.
Approach
We treat IP not in isolation, but as a core driver of your corporate strategy. We fuse the technical depth of engineers with the legal rigor of attorneys and the foresight of strategists. Precision in substance. Pragmatism in outcome.
Holistic Lifecycle Management.
We accompany your innovations throughout their entire life cycle and offer tailor-made services from the initial idea to the final asset. In line with our holistic consulting approach, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Identification &
Evaluation
We take an outcome-oriented approach and assess inventions early on for their enforceability. In parallel, we clarify risks through FTO analyses to safeguard your commercial freedom of action.
Drafting &
Filing
High-Value Drafting and Synthetic Inventing. We draft precise IP rights for your idea. Where necessary, we proactively identify technical gaps and fully leverage the potential for protection.
Prosecution &
Portfolio
We manage proceedings with global foresight. We view IP management as active value creation, not mere administration. We also resolve issues regarding employee inventions to enhance corporate harmony.
Litigation &
Enforcement
Strategic litigation rather than mere reaction. We coordinate offense and defense before the UPC and national courts. Moving beyond standard solutions, we seek exceptional strategies to safeguard your market position.
The Triad of Success.
Technical Excellence
Our foundation is technological and scientific expertise. As engineers and physicists, we speak the language of your developers. We master innovations from telecommunications to mechanical engineering.
Legal Precision
Legal craftsmanship and precision. Whether before the UPC or national courts: We formulate claims designed for maximum resilience and conduct proceedings with argumentation that is technically sound and legally robust.
Strategic Counsel
We act as architects of your market position. By drafting resilient contracts, conducting complex license negotiations, and managing rigorous due diligence, we safeguard your interests while identifying key value drivers.
Unified Patent Court:
Practice & Strategy
The UPC forgives no mistakes. As co-editors and co-authors of the handbook "Praxishandbuch Einheitspatentrecht" (Practical Handbook on Unitary Patent Law) (C.H.BECK), we know the procedural subtleties before they become practice.
Minds with Industry DNA.
Many of our key figures have independently steered the IP management of international corporations or global divisions. We know your side of the table.
Wasilis Koukounis, Dipl.-Ing., M.Sc., LL.M.
EXPERIENCE: Doncasters, thyssenkrupp, TKMSEngineer, UPC Litigator, and strategist for value-creating IP and its enforcement. VDI NRH Board Member with roots in R&D (Doncasters) and as Group In-house Counsel (thyssenkrupp). Develops IP strategies that transform technical products into scalable revenue models.
Elmin Fatić, Dipl.-Ing.
EXPERIENCE: EVONIK, GEZEThe man for the tough technical cases. Materials scientist specializing in high-performance steels and hydrogen storage. He knows the industry from the engine room: Was directly responsible for shutdowns and failure analyses in large-scale chemical plants and worked as a patent engineer at GEZE.
Dr. rer. nat. Bertram Koch, Dipl.-Phys.
EXPERIENCE: AEG, ATMEL, DaimlerThe deep-tech pioneer. Ph.D. physicist with a research focus on high-temperature superconductivity. Headed R&D at AEG-Telefunken for 10 years and built the entire patent department for semiconductor technology from the ground up for the DaimlerChrysler subsidiary ATMEL.
Dr. iur. Christian Peter Hille
EXPERIENCE: Major Law FirmThe analyst with expertise in intellectual property. Experience in an international major law firm and over 12 years of in-house experience. As an expert in trade secret protection, he safeguards corporate know-how and manages the IP-related aspects of due diligence reviews during transactions.
Andrea Koukounis, M.Sc.
EXPERIENCE: Semiconductors, High-Tech & SoftwareThe interface for high-tech. Combines expertise for computer-implemented inventions (software) with nanotechnology and automotive. She leads and coordinates infringement proceedings internationally and multilingually and acts as a strategic translator between complex code and legal enforcement.
Gerrit Fachinger, M.Sc.
EXPERIENCE: CLAASAs a specialist in process automation and digitalization, he handles cases where classical engineering disciplines meet Industry 4.0 applications. After several years of law firm practice, his path led him as a patent counsel to CLAAS KGaA mbH, the global market leader for self-propelled harvesting machines.
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Jendritza, Dipl.-Ing.
EXPERIENCE: Johnson Controls, STIHLThe R&D executive and innovation architect. Looks back on over 30 years of industry experience, including as Senior VP at STIHL and Global Director at Johnson Controls. Supports in the IP context with invention harvesting, the technical classification of complex systems, and the elaboration of IP-relevant core statements.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Klein, Dipl.-Ing., MBA
EXPERIENCE: DMG MORI, SiemensReceived his doctorate with distinction from RWTH Aachen University. Experience among others at DMG MORI and Siemens. Supports in the IP context with the technical analysis of production and manufacturing technologies, the evaluation and differentiation of technical solutions, as well as technical due diligence reviews with IP relevance.
Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Dieter Meyer-Gramann, Dipl.-Math.
EXPERIENCE: AEG, Daimler, Siemens, Welger, thyssenkrupp, DrägerThe industry veteran with the 360° view. Was operationally active in the patent departments of several industry sectors ranging from automotive to medical technology. He knows the internal processes firsthand and adapts best practices across industries for maximum efficiency.