Patent Litigation Law Firm of the Year in Germany
Patentanwälte Maikowski & Ninnemann Dr Gunnar Baumgärtel Partner Tel: +49 (0)30 881 81 81 office@maikowski-ninnemann.com www.maikowski-ninnemann.com Dr Gunnar Baumgärtel is a partner of Maikowski & Ninnemann, a patent attorney firm with offices in Berlin, Leipzig and Munich and a strong expertise in all areas of intellectual property protection. The firm advises on all questions relating to industrial property rights, inventions, trademarks and designs, including in particular the enforcement of such rights. Currently 14 patent and trademark attorneys work at Maikowski & Ninnemann.
The high-proficiency standard at the firm will be retained in the future. Only those who received their professional training at Maikowski & Ninnemann will become new partners at the firm. Consequently, it has received numerous awards in recent years praising the outstanding quality of the legal service provided by its attorneys.
Dr Baumgärtel is a German and European patent attorney representing clients in various matters concerning industrial property, notably patent prosecution, licensing and complex international litigation cases. He is a member of the Bureau of AIPPI and lectures at the Free University of Berlin.
Only those who received their professional training at Maikowski & Ninnemann will become new partners at the firm.
From the beginning, Maikowski & Ninnemann’s policy has been to provide direct and comprehensive contact between the clients and its competent intellectual property experts to allow the highest levels of efficiency, and guarantee optimal strategies for protecting the clients’ intellectual property.
Maikowski & Ninnemann’s most important services are: advice on inventions, trademarks, designs, know-how, software and licences; advice on the law regarding employees’ inventions; and prosecution and litigation of patents, utility models, design
patents and trademarks nationally in Germany, regionally in Europe, and internationally in all countries and regions throughout the world. The firm has a special focus on managing, prosecuting and defending substantive patent and trademark portfolios as well as representing clients in complex international litigation cases. The patent attorneys at Maikowski & Ninnemann are experienced in all areas of technology and have broad knowledge and experience in the fields of physics, for example: optics and light technology, such as optoelectronics, cameras, telescopes and lasers; medical systems technology, medical imaging and measurement technology; electrical engineering, including electronics, telecommunications, semi-conductor technology, measurement and control technology, and medical technology; mechanical engineering, for example mechanics and mechatronics, plant engineering and shipbuilding; chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology; and software.
Telecoms Patents Law Firm of the Year in Germany
PATENTSHIP Patentanwaltskanzlei Dr Robert Klinski Managing Partner Tel: +49 (0) 89 759698690 mail@patentship.eu www.patentship.eu PATENTSHIP is a patent firm specialised in prosecuting and litigating national and international intellectual property rights in the field of electrical engineering and information technology, physics, mechanics and chemistry. The firm is located in Munich - close to the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office as well as the German Federal Patent Court. Another branch of the firm is located in Aschaffenburg, from where clients from the entire Rhein-Main-Area are serviced directly and on-site. “We strive to offer our clients the best possible service – at affordable prices,” said Robert Klinski, managing partner. “We believe that this can be accomplished only through a close cooperation with our clients. Understanding our client’s technology and needs is the key for us to provide goal-oriented services in all fields of IP. “While the focus of our work is the prosecution of patents and other protective rights including utility models, trademarks and designs in Europe and throughout the world, a close cooperation with attorneys at law specialised in IP allows us also to offer qualified services in nullity and infringement proceedings. Moreover, a wide network of associate
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patent firms throughout the world enables us to implement multinational IP strategies for our clients.” PATENTSHIP provides world-wide full cover service for intellectual property matters such as German, European, Asian and US patents, German and foreign utility models, applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), national, international and Community trademarks, national and international design models and topographic designs, trademark and patent searches, expert analysis, litigation, license matters, the law of employees’ inventions, portfolio and intellectual property right strategies. Mr Klinski studied electrical engineering and telecommunications at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and received his doctorate with
Mr Klinski lectures frequently on software patents under German, European and international patent law.
honors from the Munich Technical University in the field of digital signal processing for multicarrier systems. During his doctorate he worked with the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Systems in Munich where he designed wired and wireless communication systems and held the position of a project and group leader. Furthermore, he is the author of numerous publications in the field of digital telecommunications and mentioned as inventor in several patents. Mr Klinski has been working in the field of intellectual property since 2002 and is the founder of PATENTSHIP. He has extensive experience in infringement and nullity proceedings as well as in preparing and prosecuting German, European, PCT- and US-patent applications particularly in the area of electrical engineering, telecommunications, digital signal processing, RF technology, digital and analog circuit design, coding, cryptography, software, medical systems, mechanics and optics. Mr Klinski lectures frequently on software patents under German, European and international patent law. He is fluent in German, English and Polish. Furthermore, he is member of VPP and EPI.