Dr. Clemens Plassmann

Clemens conducted numerous patent infringement lawsuits before the German civil courts and worked on parallel validity proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the German Federal Supreme Court and the European Patent Office. He has a great deal of experience in coordinating multi-jurisdictional patent disputes (including arbitrations) in Europe. Clemens is also active in client counselling as regards licensing, transactional IP and the law of employees' inventions. He increasingly advises on strategic issues related to the upcoming system of the Unified Patent Court in Europe.