Patent Litigation

Practice Areas

Friedrich Emmerling has extensive experience in conducting patent litigation and prosecution, enforcing patents and utility models, offering strategic advice on patent portfolios and representing clients in numerous nullity proceedings and oppositions before the German patent courts and EPO. He also cooperates with law firms in parallel infringement proceedings before the German Regional/Higher Regional Courts.

Many of these patent disputes are based on SEPs and concern complex technical questions in the mobile communications, video and photovoltaic technology fields. He possesses extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of laser physics, LED technology, mobile communications, semiconductor technology, software, telecoms and video/audio encoding.

Career

Friedrich Emmerling is a patent attorney and equity partner at BDPE in Munich, a genuine service boutique specialising in patent litigation and prosecution and is frequently recommended by numerous publications and organisations.

He garners a truly remarkable amount of praise for his infringement and nullity proceedings in the electronics and telecom fields and works for domestic and international clients and has an international network of contacts with other law firms and patent attorneys. Before his work as a patent attorney, Dr Emmerling served as a senior executive in industry in the software development and application engineering fields. He studied physics and earned his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich.

epi – European Patent Institute FICPI – International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys German Chamber of Patent Attorneys GRUR – German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Equity Partner, Patent Attorney

Technical University of Munich