We welcome Felix Förschner to our team as a patent engineer. The interdisciplinary physicist began his training in 2019 at one of the largest patent law firms on Lake Constance and is aiming to be admitted as a German Patent Attorney and as a European Patent Attorney. He will strengthen our team, particularly in the fields of medical technology, mechanics, electrical engineering, and optics.

Bernhard Thum is again recommended by Who’s Who Legal. In the German ranking for 2024 he is included as IP Patent Agent. 

We welcome Leander Lenhard to our team as Senior Associate. The German and European patent attorney and UPC representative previously worked for a renowned Munich law firm. The graduate engineer has extensive IP experience in the fields of automotive engineering, medical technology, information technology, robotics, materials technology and general mechanical engineering. He strengthens our team in all aspects of patent law and is involved in several cases at the new Unified Patent Court.

We welcome Sebastian Schneller to our team as Senior Associate. He is an attorney-at-law who previously worked for over a decade in one of the largest patent and law firms on Lake Constance. The experienced IP attorney strengthens our team in the areas of trademarks and designs, contract law and employee invention law as well as patent law opinions.

Thum & Partner is again recognized in JUVE Patent’s 2023 Ranking for “Patent Attorneys in Litigation” with Bernhard Thum and Jonas Weickert being mentioned as “recommended individuals”.

 

For the third time already since our launch in 2021, Bernhard Thum is further listed by JUVE Patent as patent attorney with technical specialty in Germany.

 

We are delighted to have received such a positive mention in the JUVE Patent Rankings 2023. Above all, we would like to thank our clients and their in-house teams for their trust and support, our partner law firms for the great cooperation and our great continuously growing team for the strong performance!

As an experienced German and European patent attorney, the physicist complements the spectrum of the partnership. In line with the firm’s philosophy, he will support our team and lead the way in addressing each case and each mandate individually in order to achieve success.

 

At his previous firm, he served large, medium, and small companies and was responsible for a large number of two-sided proceedings. Dr. Eichelhardt has already represented his clients in more than 100 oral hearings, most of them opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office  and thus ideally complements our team, not least in view of the challenges of our already pending and future proceedings before the UPC.

We welcome Dr. Francesca Paola Quacquarelli as a patent engineer in our team. The Ph.D. physicist and successful scientist has several years of experience in the patent field and previously worked in a Munich law firm as well as in big English and American law firms. She is seeking admission as a European Patent Attorney and will strengthen the team primarily in the fields of medical technologies, optics, and electronics.

We welcome Dr. Johannes Potzy as a patent attorney candidate in our team. With his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, he has extensive experience in software development for robotics as well as in series and advance development of automated driving systems. He began his training at a renowned Munich law firm and is about to take the German patent attorney examination. He is also working towards admission as a European Patent Attorney. He strengthens the team in the fields of automation technology, robotics, automotive technology and mechanical engineering.

Today, Germany has ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. The system will accordingly start on 1 June 2023. The so-called sunrise period will start on 1 March 2023.

 

We look forward to this new era of the European patent landscape and all the opportunities and challenges it brings.

We welcome Matthias Schädler as an associate in our team. The German patent attorney previously worked for a Munich law firm and is also seeking admission as a European Patent Attorney. During his studies at the Technical University of Munich, he specialized, inter alia, in automotive and engine technology and worked for companies in the automotive industry. He strengthens our team primarily in the fields of automotive, mechanical engineering and medical technology.

One year after the start of our law firm, Thum & Partner is recognized in JUVE Patent’s 2022 Ranking for “Patent Attorneys in Litigation” with Bernhard Thum and Jonas Weickert being mentioned as “recommended individuals”.

 

For the second time already since our launch, Bernhard Thum is further listed by JUVE Patent as patent attorney with technical specialty in Germany.

 

We are pleased about this rating. We will continue to give our best to live up to this recognition. Thanks to our clients and colleagues for the good collaboration, and congratulations to our motivated and growing team.

One year ago, our law firm started operations. We look back on successful and exciting first twelve months. Our entire team would like to thank our clients for their trust, our partners for the great cooperation, our opponents for the good and fair disputes, and our friends for their constant support.

We welcome Stefan Baldus as a patent attorney candidate in our team. He graduated with an M. Sc. in chemical and bioengineering from FAU Erlangen, where he focused on adherent brain cells on microcarriers and sustainable chemical technologies for the generation of regenerative carbon monoxide. He also worked in the aerospace industry and for an automotive manufacturer. With his broad technical background, he strengthens our team in the fields of process engineering, biotechnology, medical technology and automotive engineering.

In August 2022, the Who’s Who Legal IP Report for the year 2022 was published. We are pleased that our partner Bernhard Thum is again listed therein this year.

 

You can find more details here.

In July 2022, the global ranking IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals for the year 2022 was published. We are pleased that our partner Bernhard Thum is again listed therein this year.

 

You can find more details here.

Today, we were thrilled when the results of the European Qualification Examination (EQE) came in: Nadine Losleben and Leonhard Walther have both passed the EQE. They will now be registered as European Patent Attorneys very soon.

 

Congratulations, what a success!

On June 24, 2022, the German newspaper Handelsblatt published the current rankings for the best lawyers in Germany in 2022, based on the international survey Best Lawyers 2022. We are pleased that our partner Bernhard Thum is again listed as one of the Best Lawyers 2022 in the field of Intellectual Property. You can find more details here.

In recognition of her contributions to the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI), Dr. Georgina Busku was awarded a golden lion award at the opening ceremony of this year’s LESI annual meeting in Venice. This award recognizes members who embody attributes that make LESI successful. A well-deserved honor for Foreign Counsel Dr. Georgina Busku, the former International Chair of the LESI Young Members Committee.

Congratulations!

Our attorneys Dr. Nadine Losleben and Carola Schmidt are now supporting the Female Founders Academy 2022 as contact persons for IP issues. As part of an annually recurring program, this joint initiative of the universities of Bayreuth, Passau and Mannheim aims to encourage female students and research assistants to start up their own businesses and to introduce them to topics such as ideation, prototyping and the development of business models.

After the minimum number of ratifications of the Protocol for the Provisional Application of the Agreement was reached on January 19, 2022, the preparatory phase for the Unified Patent Court has officially started. A recent article on this topic can be found on JUVE Patent.

 

It is generally expected that the preparations will take about eight months. These include, among other things, the selection of suitable judges. Towards the end of 2022, the Unified Patent Court could thus start its work. The European unitary patent is now within reach.

 

We are already evaluating the implications for our clients and the opportunities and risks arising from this new development.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Georgina Busku as a new member of our team. As Foreign Counsel, she will raise Thum & Partner’s international profile. She is a former chair of LESI YMC (Licensing Executives Society International Young Members Committee), a board member of LES Hungary, and an active member of international and national professional associations. Georgina Busku will bring to us her vast experience in trademark law as well as in technology transfer and licensing matters, gained, inter alia, as Managing Director in the Hungarian liaison office of an established IP law firm in the Middle East.

On October 29, 2021, the current rankings for the most relevant law firms and attorneys in patent law in Germany were published in JUVE Patent. We are pleased to announce that our partner Bernhard Thum is listed as one of the 20 individually recommended patent attorneys in Germany in the category “Leading Individuals – Patent attorneys with technical specialty”. You can find more details here.

On October 01, 2021, the law firm Thum & Partners has started operation in Munich-Bogenhausen with a team of 13 attorneys, selected patent paralegals and translators, and in close cooperation with leading law firms in the field of intellectual property. We would like to thank all our clients who have placed their trust in us from the very beginning.