WITTEWELLER Patent attorneys

Our partners, international

In the field of industrial property rights, WITTEWELLER has links worldwide with many companies with which it enjoys close, personal and friendly working relations. We have at our disposal a well-established and highly effective international network of patent and property rights attorneys. We also act as an expert point of contact in global cases.

Our partners, national

As our firm concentrates solely on patent law, we use our network of law firms, specialising in a wide range of expertise, in litigation matters.

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I/2024 EPO Study – Rapid growth in patent filings in 3D printing technologies

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II/2023 Record numbers in European and German patent filings

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I/2023 A Laptop is not a Digital Book

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III/2022 Update UPC I – Start of Sunrise Period on 1 March 2023

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II/2022 Record filings at EPO – Four millionth patent application deals with artificial intelligence (AI)

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I/2022 The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) are really coming!

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III/2021 Green Light for the European Unitary Patent

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II/2021 Artificial Intelligence and Patent Protection

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I/2021 Patents in times of COVID-19 pandemic: What are patents on vaccines worth in times of a pandemic?

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II/2020 Federal Supreme Court ruled: Ritter Sport remains the only square chocolate

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I/2020 German Federal Constitutional Court “topples” the Unified Patent Court

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II/2019 Trademark infringement also applies in relation to links to goods and services offered by third-party providers

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I/2019 On-sale bar in the USA – a new trap for patent proprietors?

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III/2018 New EPO Examination Guidelines encompass artificial intelligence and machine learning

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II/2018 Complaint lodged with the Constitutional Court against the obligation to recall

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I/2018 The Federal Court of Justice’s “Digitales Buch” judgment

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III/2017 Quality, Chocolate, Squared =3D-Trademark!

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II/2017 The German Federal Constitutional Court halts the promulgation of the Unified Patent Court legislation

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I/2017 EPO – Validation agreement with Cambodia

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IV/2016 Green Light for the Unitary Patent?

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III/2016 Brexit – What now?

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II/2016 Unrest at the European Patent Office

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I/2016 European Patent Office

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III/2015 Can there really be only one “Goldbear”? The German Federal Court of Justice has reached a decision

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II/2015 Reform of Community trademarklaw

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Extra 2015 Update on the unitary patent

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I/2015 Validation of European Patents in Morocco

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II/2014 GPTO sees steady rise in patent and trade mark applications

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I/2014 Domain law - Trademark Clearinghouse

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III/2013 GPTO goes Online!

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II/2013 Judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice “Route planning”

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I/2013 The EU patent with unitary effect is within reach

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III/2012 Charity initiative

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II/2012 Changes in U.S. patent law

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I/2012 Increase in the European Patent Office Fees

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I/2011 Extension to the deadline under Rule 161 EPC

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Profile Dipl.-Ing. Christian Steil

Profile Dipl.-Ing. , LL.M. Michael Lindner

Profile Dr. rer. nat. , Dipl.-Phys. , LL.M. Volker Heuckeroth

Profile Doctor of Engineering , Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Duhme

Profile Dr. rer. nat. , Dipl.-Biol. Marco Findeisen

Profile Dr. rer. nat. , Dipl.-Biol. Gabriele Laufer

Profile Dipl.-Phys. Mark Wegener

Profile Dipl.-Ing. Stephan Keck

Profile Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Gröschel

Profile Dipl.-Ing. , LL.M. Christian Gembruch

Profile M. Sc. (ETH) David Dobler

Profile Dipl.-Ing. , Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Stefan von Siegroth

Profile Doctor of Engineering , M. Sc. Andreas Eisele

Profile Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Lütkebohmert

Profile Dr. rer. nat. , M. Sc. Sophia Zielinski

Profile Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Späth

Profile Dipl.-Ing. Lukas Klement

Profile M. Sc. Ali Yesil

Gabriela Braun Office Management

Antje Freese Attorney , Specialized in Intellectual Property Rights

Markus Germann Dipl.-Phys. , EP Patent Attorney

Doris Hickethier Head of Office Management

Alexander Leiteritz Attorney , Head of Trademark Department

Katrin Schäfer Accounting Manager

Regina Wenningmann Graduate in Business Administration and Economics , Human Resources

Christoph Binz Dr. rer. nat. , M. Sc. , Candidate

Johanna Gagel Doctor of Engineering , M. Sc. , Candidate

Luis Neuhof M. Sc. , Candidate

JUVE 2023

„Patent Filing – Germany 2023“
We are very pleased that WITTEWELLER has again been recognized as one of the leading patent law firms in the “Patent Filing Germany 2023” area in 2023.

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Handelsblatt 2023

The business magazine Handelsblatt honours WITTEWELLER as "Best Lawyers" in Intellectual Property for 2023, singling out partners Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck, Christian Steil and Mark Wegener in particular.

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Financial Times 2023

The Financial Times ranks WITTEWELLER as one of the leading European patent law firms in 2023. In the ranking, WITTEWELLER is particularly distinguished in the category "Electrical Engineering and Physics".

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Handelsblatt 2022

Once again in 2022 the business newspaper Handelsblatt names crown WITTEWELLER ‘Germany’s best lawyers’ in the field of industrial property rights.

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JUVE 2022

„Patent Filing – Germany 2022“
WITTEWELLER was once again hailed as one of the leading patent law firms in the category ‘Patent Filing Germany’ by specialist publisher JUVE in 2022.

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Financial Times 2022

Business magazine the Financial Times ranks WITTEWELLER as one of ‘Europe‘s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022’.

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FOCUS 2022

News magazine FOCUS recommends WITTEWELLER – as it did the previous year – as one of the leading law firms for patent law in 2022 in its annual ranking of Germany’s corporate law firms. We are delighted with the result and take particular pleasure in the fact that, once again, our firm has succeeded in achieving an above-average approval rating among clients.

Handelsblatt 2021

In 2021, WITTEWELLER was again recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights.

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JUVE 2021

"Patent Filing – Germany 2021"
In 2021, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2021".

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FOCUS 2021

WITTWELLER was listed as a top patent law firm in 2021 in the FOCUS list of leading commercial law firms.

Handelsblatt 2020

In 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights. On this occasion, the Handelsblatt gave a special mention to the WITTEWELLER attorneys Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck and Mark Wegener.

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JUVE 2020

"Patent Filing – Germany 2020"
In 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2020".

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WirtschaftsWoche 2020

The WirtschaftsWoche ranks WITTEWELLER among the top law firms in patent law. In the ranking for 2020, Dr Gabriele Laufer is singled out as a particularly recommended attorney.

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