Gulde & Partner

WHO IS GULDE & Partner?

GULDE & Partner is one of the leading IP law firms in Europe. Our international team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law protects all kind of ideas and advises on all areas of intellectual property, in particular patent, trademark, design and copyright law. We represent a wide range of clients, from individual inventors to global corporations, both in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights, i.e. in IP right prosecution as well as in IP right litigation.

The firm was founded in 1990 and today has eight Managing Partners, about 52 (European & German) Patent Attorneys and Patent Engineers, four Attorneys At Law as well as three Asia Experts / Consultants. Our team is highly diverse and comrprises Attorneys and technical experts inter alia from Italy, India, Israel, China, Korea, Japan, Poland and Austria.

GULDE & Partner has offices in Berlin (main office), Düsseldorf, Munich, Hamburg, Beijing and Yokohama.

The firm is very well known for its focus on Asia and its close ties to Korean and Chinese clients.

The firm's most important services include Advice on inventions, trademarks, designs, know-how, software and licenses; advice on questions of employee invention law; filing, enforcing and defending patents, utility models, designs (design rights) and trademarks nationally in Germany and internationally in all countries and regions worldwide; representation before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court, the European Union Intellectual Property Office and other international intellectual property authorities as well as before courts; Assisting in patent and trademark infringement proceedings before civil courts, in lawsuits as well as in preliminary injunction proceedings; nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Supreme Court; monitoring and managing intellectual property portfolios; conducting patent, trademark and design searches and patent translations.

The patent attorneys at Gulde & Partner have expertise and experience in all areas of technology, in particular in the fields of mechanical engineering, electronics, software, pharmaceuticals and life science, chemistry, medical technology, automotive engineering and telecommunications.

Managing Partners of the firm:

• Dr. Diane Reinstädler
• Marco Scheffler
• Dr. Jan Neigenfink
• Dr. Sönke Lorenz
• Dr. Jens Glienke
• Nicolas Haße
• Falk Lehmann
• Niklas Mellmann

• Berlin (main office)
• Düsseldorf
• Munich
• Hamburg
• Beijing
• Yokohama.

Languages spoken at the firm:

• English
• German
• French
• Korean
• Chinese
• Polish
• Italian
• Arabic
• Hebrew

Memberships of the firm:

• GRUR
• AIPPI
• VPP
• GFAI
• EPLIT