Dr. Ulrich Blumenröder, LL.M.
Admitted to the Bar, Representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
blumenroeder@grunecker.de S/MIME
+49 (0) 89 21 23 50
Office: Munich
Languages: German, English
Expertise
Ulrich Blumenröder has been representing both large international and medium-sized companies in patent infringement proceedings for numerous years. His primary focus is multinational disputes requiring coordination of validity and infringement proceedings across multiple countries.
Benefiting from his extensive experience, Ulrich adeptly aligns his clients’ legal and commercial interests. He also provides guidance in settlement discussions and actively participates in mediation and arbitration proceedings in Germany and abroad.
Ulrich has been familiar with the Unified Patent Court since 2012 due to regular teaching activities. Since the UPC Agreement came into force on June 1, 2023, he has represented clients before the new court.
Many of the cases Ulrich manages involve numerous patents concurrently, such as SEP proceedings.
Areas
- Patent Infringement
- Competition Law
- Technology Transfer & Licensing
Vita
- Study of law at the Universities of Passau and Cologne, first state examination 1987
- Legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, second state examination 1991
- LL.M. Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania, 1992
- Attorney-at-Law with Grünecker, since 1992
- Partner at Grünecker, since 1995
- Admission as a Representative before the Unified Patent Court, 2023
- President of the Patent Court Working Group until 2023
Publications & Lectures
“The transfer of the patent”
Götting, Meyer, Vormbrock, Intellectual Property Law, 2020
“The expert witness in patent infringement proceedings,”
Festschrift for Kühnen, 2024
Regular lectures, in particular at Akademie Heidelberger on the UPC
2012 until today