Christian W. Appelt > Boehmert & Boehmert > Munich, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Boehmert & Boehmert
PETTENKOFERSTRASSE 22
80336 MUNICH
Germany

Position

German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Diplom-Physiker

Career

Christian W. Appelt is focused on personal counseling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of Intellectual Property, especially Patents and Utility Models, and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China, and the US. His technical concentration is on physics, mechanical engineering, electronics, and computer technology (ICT). Besides drafting and prosecuting patent applications, Christian W. Appelt especially concentrates on representing and advising his clients in opposition and nullity proceedings, as well as in patent litigation proceedings. He represents his clients at the German patent authorities and courts, as well as at the European Patent Office (EPO) and at the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Memberships

Christian W. Appelt has been a member of the Board of the German chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) since 2010, acting as President from 2018 to 2020 and is now member of the Advisory Board of LES Germany. He is also member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR).

Education

Christian W. Appelt studied physics, majoring in Solid State Physics (Dipl. Phys. equivalent to MSc) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Besides his professional career in Europe, he worked in Japan for two years for a patent law firm in Osaka, in the patent department of Ebara Corporation, and in the IP department of Sony Corporation in Tokyo.

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Intellectual property > Patent litigation: patent lawyers

As a mixed law and patent law firm, Boehmert & Boehmert handles disputes seamlessly from a single source and often does so in the context of infringement and nullity proceedings, although opposition and appeal proceedings also form part of its expertise. Main contacts include Christian Appelt (physics, mechanical engineering, electronics, computer technology), Dennis Kretschmann (physics, electrical engineering, optics, IT) and Felix Hermann (communications technology, audio and video coding, software, digital payment systems). At the end of 2022, patent attorneys Nils Schmid, Jan Krauss, David Kuttenkeuler, Florian Malescha and Paul Schieler left to found IP boutique SKM-IP.