BDPE

Managing Partners: Friedrich Emmerling, Heinrich Pannen and Markus Kreuzberg

Number of partners: 5

Languages: English, French, German, Mandarin, Polish

Firm Overview:

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 to keep the risk of a conflict of interest as low as possible.

The lawyers of BDPE specialise in patent 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 contacts in their fields for over 20 years and are among the few established experts in the clients’ industries. The firm’s expertise is focused on patent and utility model law, in trademark, design and copyright law, as well as in competition, domain and employee invention law. BDPE works for clients in Germany and abroad and has an international network of contacts with other law firms and patent attorneys.

BDPE’s competence lies in legal representation in patent, trademark and design litigation, as well as in copyright and competition proceedings. protects innovations, new technologies and products, brands and new designs, and handles the corresponding grant, appeal and opposition proceedings. BDPE specialises in the following 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. BDPE’s team is currently composed of nine Patent Attorneys and two Attorneys at Law with offices in Munich and Dusseldorf, Germany. Its attorneys and office staff represent a multitude of nationalities from Europe, Asia and the Americas and speak as many as ten different languages.

Main Areas of Practice:

Patent Litigation:

Key Clients: Huawei Technologies, Deutsche Telekom AG, Continental Automotive AG, Philip Morris, Thales DIS France and Goodix

Contact: Friedrich Emmerling

Tel: +49 89 21 53 819 0

Email: [email protected]

Patent Prosecution:

Key Clients: Adidas AG, Huawei Technologies, Deutsche Telekom AG, Leonardo MW Ltd, Hochland SE, VVG-Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co KG, Honsel Umformtechnik GmbH, Rhodius Schleifwerkzeuge GmbH & Co KG, SICAT GmbH & Co KG, Systec POS-Technology GmbH, Systec Controls and Conradi + Kaiser GmbH

Contact: Markus Kreuzberg

Tel: +49 21 13 02 76 60

Email: [email protected]

Copyrights & Trademarks:

Key Clients: Federal Republic of Germany (Federal Ministry of the Interior), XXXLutz Marken GmbH, BDSK Handels GmbH & Co. KG, MÖMAX GmbH, Grüne Erde, SICAT GmbH & Co KG, Energieversorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH Aachen (E.V.A.), smartlab Innovationsgesellschaft mbH and Enervie.

Contact: Heinrich Pannen

Tel: +49 21 13 02 76 60

Email: [email protected]