Maikowski & Ninnemann

The firm: In 1977 Dr Michael Maikowski founded his patent attorney firm in the former West Berlin. Detlef Ninnemann, who had his own firm in Bremen, joined Dr Maikowski in 1989 to form a joint patent attorney firm – Maikowski & Ninnemann.

Dr Gunnar Baumgärtel, Prof Dr Felix Gross, Dr Christoph Schröder, Dr Fabian Sokolowski, Ralf Emig and Andreas Tanner joined as partners in 1998, 2000, 2010, 2012 and 2016 respectively. Dr Frederick Kramer joined the partnership in 2021. Currently, 18 patent attorneys and European patent attorneys work at Maikowski & Ninnemann.

From the beginning, the firm’s policy has been to provide direct contact between client and intellectual property expert to allow the highest levels of efficiency and guarantee optimal strategies for protecting clients’ intellectual property.

The high-proficiency standard at Maikowski & Ninnemann will be retained in the future: only those who received their professional training at Maikowski & Ninnemann will become new partners of the firm, guaranteeing the high internal quality and proficiency level.

Areas of practice: Maikowski & Ninnemann is a patent attorney firm with offices in Berlin, Munich, Leipzig and Frankfurt and with strong expertise in all areas of intellectual property protection. The firm advises on all questions and concerns relating to industrial property rights, inventions, trade marks and designs, as well as the enforcement and utilisation of rights.

The firm’s most important services are: advice on inventions, trade marks, designs, know-how, software and licences; advice on the law regarding employees’ inventions; prosecution and litigation of patents, utility models, design patents and trade marks nationally in Germany, regionally in Europe, and internationally in all countries and regions throughout the world; representation before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market in Alicante and other international offices regarding intellectual property protection, as well as before the courts of law; participating in patent and trade mark infringement suits before the civil courts, in regular law suits and in preliminary injunction suits; invalidation suits before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Supreme Court; monitoring and administration of property right portfolios; and patent, trade mark and design searches and patent translations.

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 imaging and measurement technology; electrical engineering, for example 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.