Peter Kather

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Patent Litigation

IP Litigation

Personal

For 15 years, Dr Peter Kather gained experience as an IP litigator in Munich, before he established an office in Düsseldorf for his previous firm, which he led till December 2015.

In 2016 Dr Peter Kather and his partners decided to establish a high-quality IP litigation boutique law firm: Kather Augenstein with Dr Peter Kather as co-founder and Senior Partner.

With more than 30 years of experience in the field of intellectual property law Dr Peter Kather has handled hundreds of IP-infringement cases – with a focus on patent infringement – in 1st (Landgerichte – Reginal Courts) and 2nd (Oberlandesgerichte – Higher Regional Courts) instance, and participated in 3rd instance (Bundesgerichtshof – FCJ). Further, he participated in nullity cases before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the EPO, the FPC and the FCJ.

His clients benefit from his areas of expertise - engineering, telecommunications, chemistry, automotive and biotechnology. One of his specialties are cross-border proceedings. He conducted numerous proceedings of this type in Germany in a leading role and coordinated them on an international level.

Dr Peter Kather has performed several times in the role of arbitrator at the ICC and DIS for IP related cases.