Intellectual Property: Patent Attorneys: Contentious
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df-mp
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2000
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Overview
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df-mp is a leading European IP law firm based in Munich. Founded in 2000, the firm delivers expert advice on patent prosecution, portfolio management, trademark law, and SPCs to clients ranging from SMEs to global corporations.
df-mp is particularly renowned for its high-stakes litigation practice across the life sciences (df-mp life), technology, and telecommunications sectors (df-mp tech) and df-mp.brands (prosecution and litigation of trademarks and designs.
Industry sectors (8)
- Biotechnology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Chemistry
- Electrical Arts
- Mechanical Arts
- Physics
- Trademarks
- Design
Clients (15)
- France Brevet
- Conversant
- Nokia
- FIPA
- IPCOM
- Unwired Planet
- Frauenhofer Gesellschaft
- OneButton
- Hexal
- Biogen
- Amgen
- Teva
- Lonza
- Ceva Santé Animale
- Pfizer
Key people
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Ulrich Dörries
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Sandra Pohlman
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Elisabeth Greiner
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David Molnia
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Dominik Ho
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Work & experience
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For example, df-mp’s biotech/pharmaceutical patents group (also known as “df-mp life”, led by Ulrich Dörries, Sandra Pohlman and Elisabeth Greiner) has handled a number of newsworthy litigation matters, including large and complex EPO oppositions and patent nullity actions before the German Federal Patent Court and the Federal Supreme Court in the area of product, formulation and use patents concerning blockbuster small molecule drugs and biologics.
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David Molnia
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Sandra Pohlman
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Dominik Ho
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Top figures
21
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1
Offices
2000
Established Year
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