Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB

Number of Partners: 35

Number of Lawyers: 88

Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Turkish

VOSSIUS is a partnership of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law with offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Basel. Established in Munich in 1961, it is today one of Europe‘s leading IP firms with clients from all over the world.

Main Areas of Practice

Biology & Biotechnology

VOSSIUS has an outstandingly strong and experienced biology and biotechnology group with patent attorneys and technical experts being acquainted with a wide variety of scientific fields in all areas of life sciences. National and international clients, from start-ups, universities and research institutions to multinational companies, trust in the firm's expertise. VOSSIUS consults their clients as a trustworthy partner in all issues related to intellectual property rights.

Chemistry & Pharmacology

Throughout the firm's history, chemistry and pharmacology have been key pillars of their advisory practice. Leading multinational companies, small and mid-sized enterprises and start-ups, as well as academic and scientific institutions trust the firm's longstanding expertise in these areas.

Physics, Engineering & IT

Global leaders trust in the firm's expertise to protect their inventions in the various segments of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering and information technology industries. VOSSIUS guides companies in a wide variety of these segments through all steps of the process for protecting their intellectual property.

Trademarks, Designs & Competition Law

The firm's highly specialised attorneys offer strategic legal advice in all matters relating to the registration of trademarks and designs. They also represent clients in connection with all trademark and design infringements and litigation, as well as in competition proceedings. They frequently conduct proceedings before, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the German Federal Patent Court and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as well as German civil courts.

Patent Disputes & Patent Litigation

The firm’s very experienced litigators will ensure that their clients' protective rights are enforced both in and out of court. The firm will also conduct arbitration procedures and mediation. The team represents its clients before all German courts and the courts of the European Union. In patent and utility model infringement cases, it can provide clients with well-attuned teams of highly specialised attorneys-at-law and patent attorneys with strong trial experience in all areas of the natural sciences and engineering to develop effective attack and defence strategies. As a result, the firm has a clear competitive advantage over firms without this integrated approach of attorneys-at-law and patent attorneys in one firm: The firm is in a position to address all aspects of the matter directly and offer advice from a single source. This ‘one-stop shopping’ approach benefits both national companies and large multinational conglomerates, which the firm represents before all German courts handling IP law, as well as the European Patent Office (EPO) and the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). The team has extensive experience conducting infringement proceedings before the German courts and firms can rely on an excellent global network of colleagues. This collaboration with other IP firms, especially in the US, Asia and Europe, is the result of longstanding excellent working relationships, allowing the firm to provide clients with reliable and efficient advice in cross-border cases.

Copyright & Media Law

The firm's clients in this area come from all industries, including the film and music industry, publishing and the software industry, with an additional focus on architecture and art. VOSSIUS represents companies as well as individual artists, such as architects and photographers. The firm also advises agencies, associations and museums, with an additional focus on online platforms and new media. The copyright and media law practice group also advises and represents clients in contract negotiations and trial proceedings. The focus of advice in media law is on freedom of the press and freedom of expression. The clients in this area are mostly companies, but VOSSIUS also represents private individuals.

IT Law

VOSSIUS offers strategic consulting to international market leaders as well as mid-sized companies and start-ups in the diverse area of IT law and data protection law, developing creative solutions that are tailored to meet the needs of the client. In both areas, their clients are confronted by new legal, operational and technical-organizational requirements. They trust the expertise of the firm's highly specialised attorneys in all relevant steps of the process. VOSSIUS guides their clients through the challenges of digital transformation, assisted by the firm's inhouse technical expertise.

Artificial Intelligence

VOSSIUS advises on all issues related to artificial intelligence. This includes intellectual property law (copyright, patent, licensing) as well as liability and regulatory issues. Our firm offers legal and technical advice from a single source.

Asia Desk

As one of Europe's preeminent IP law firms coordinating and handling the most complex multinational matters and proceedings for international clients, VOSSIUS has developed a strong focus on Asia over the past decades. For Asian - especially Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese - clients as well as for clients doing business in Asia, VOSSIUS has established an integrated Asia Desk consisting of attorneys and consultants from Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan, some of whom are not only qualified in their respective country but also as European patent attorneys or lawyers. They form highly-skilled teams together with the firm's European experts to address market-specific issues as well as language requirements and are always up to date with the latest developments in a rapidly evolving economic market area.

GERMANY

MUNICH (HEAD OFFICE): Siebertstrasse 3, 81675

Tel: +49 89 413 040

Fax: +49 89 4130 4111

Email: [email protected]

DÜSSELDORF: Georg-Glock-Strasse 3, 40474

Tel: +49 211 210 913 315

Fax: +49 211 210 913 330

Email: [email protected]

BERLIN: Joachimsthaler Straße 34, 10719

Tel: +49 30 340 609 501

Fax: +49 30 340 609 512

Email: [email protected]

International Offices

SWITZERLAND

BASEL: Hirschgässlein 11, PO Box 4010

Tel: +41 61 5601 490

Fax: +41 61 5601 488

Email: [email protected]