Vossius & Partner

Patent Disputes & Patent Litigation

PARTNER, Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-Law), UPC Representative

Dr. Georg Andreas Rauh is registered as a German attorney at law and started his career at VOSSIUS in 2008. He became partner of the firm in 2014.

His professional practice is focused on advising leading national and international clients in complex patent disputes before the German infringement and nullity courts as well as the European and German Patent offices in all technical fields, with a specific focus on telecoms/consumer electronics, biotech, med-tech and pharma litigation. Dr. Rauh has been lead counsel in multiple international patent disputes and thus possesses a profound expertise in international patent law as well as the coordination of multi-national patent infringement proceedings. He is also a renowned expert in anti-trust issues surrounding IP law, in particular with regard to the FRAND defense in standard essential patent cases.

Dr. Rauh studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. During his studies and at the beginning of his career, he worked for several renowned IP law firms in Munich, Madrid, Buenos Aires and California. He finished his doctoral thesis on the topic of “Indirect (Contributory) Patent Infringement in Germany, Japan and the US” (summa cum laude, faculty price of the University of Munich) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Joseph Straus at the Max-Planck-Institute of Innovation and Competition, which has been published in the institute’s famous series on Intellectual Property Law as volume 161.

Dr. Rauh is author of multiple publications and regularly lectures on actual topics of German and European patent law. He speaks German and Spanish as a mother tongue, as well as English.

Dr. Rauh is regularly mentioned as a highly recommended litigator in leading legal rankings for Germany/Europe.

German, English, Spanish

Rechtsanwaltskammer, GRUR, Deutsch/Spanische Juristenvereinigung, EPLAW