Grünecker sharpens its profile as a leading IP boutique law firm successful in the field of patent litigation with both its attorneys-at-law and patent attorneys: In the current JUVE Patent Ranking, Grünecker is listed in the categories “Patent Litigation: Patent Attorneys” and ”Patent Litigation: Attorneys-at-Law”, which reflects the continuous expansion of this discipline in the firm. In the “Patent Litigation: Attorneys-at-Law”, Grünecker is one of the few law firms in the entire Tier 1 and 2 that takes a ‘mixed approach’, i.e. consists of a mixed partnership of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law. The advantage: Grünecker does not need to cooperate with other law firms for litigation, thus ensuring efficient counsel, which is particularly advantageous when time is tight.
Grünecker is recognized as “a large mixed German IP firm with a strong team for prosecution and litigation”. According to the JUVE editorial team, the firm’s patent attorneys are “among the market leaders in the latter”. Grünecker’s “dynamic prosecution practice” is supported by “more than 130 patent attorneys”, while the litigation team is “continuously active in major proceedings spanning various technical fields, but especially regarding electronics, including SEPs, and mechanical engineering.”
Grünecker is recommended for its expertise in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, automotive and transport, digital communications and computer technology, electronics as well as mechanics, process and mechanical engineering.
JUVE highlights that the mixed litigation team has “recently expanded its expertise and client base” in biotechnology, “particularly in patents for cancer treatments”. The team has also grown, with “younger patent attorneys joining the partnership” and “an attorney joining as a lateral hire at counsel level”.
The firm is ideally positioned in litigation concerning “mechanics, semiconductors and mobile communications, including SEPs,” with a “pan-European prosecution team active in many renowned technical fields.”
Recommended individuals are attorneys-at-law Dr. Bernd Allekotte, Dr. Ulrich Blumenröder and patent attorneys Dr. Jens Hammer, Dr. Moritz Höffe, Reinhard Knauer, Jens Koch, and Dr. Heike Vogelsang-Wenke.
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