Biography: Patents

Jochen Pagenberg, Dr iur, LLM (Harvard), is admitted to the Munich and Paris bars, and co-founder of the firm Bardehle Pagenberg.

His practice covers litigation and advice in all fields of intellectual property: enforcement of mechanical, pharmaceutical, biotech, electronic and software patents; prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and copyright matters, unfair competition, European antitrust law and licensing, arbitration and mediation proceedings.

He represents market leaders in semiconductors, telecommunications, medical devices and automotive technology. Through litigation or preparing for large-scale technology transfer between international companies, Jochen Pagenberg helps his clients to negotiate licence agreements.

Jochen Pagenberg is member of the advisory committee of the German Federal Ministry of Justice set up to discuss matters of European patent law. He is past president of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) and chairman of the special committee on European patent litigation of the AIPPI. He is also a member of the expert committee of the EU Commission for the European Patent Judiciary consisting of five patent judges and five patent litigators.

He has published a number of books and more than 80 articles, and lectures at the Universities of Strasbourg (CEIPI) and Alicante, and at the Munich Industrial Property Law Center (MIPLC). In 2010 Dr Pagenberg was elected as a member of the prestigious IP Hall of Fame.

Biography: Trademarks

Jochen Pagenberg, Dr iur, LLM (Harvard), is an attorney at law, who is admitted to the Munich and Paris bars, and co-founder of the IP law firm Bardehle Pagenberg. His practice covers litigation and advice in all fields of intellectual property including enforcement of mechanical, pharmaceutical, biotech, electronic and software patents; prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and copyright matters, unfair competition, European antitrust law and licensing, arbitration and mediation proceedings. For more than 30 years, Jochen Pagenberg has prepared and coordinated important cases with multilingual and multidisciplinary teams.

He represents market leaders in semiconductors, telecommunications, medical devices and automotive technology. Through litigation or preparing for large-scale technology transfer between international companies, Jochen Pagenberg helps his clients to negotiate important licence agreements.

Important trademark cases concern parallel importation of consumer products, worldwide coexistence agreements between suppliers, and piracy cases. His practice comprises regular representation in opposition proceedings before the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (trademarks and designs) (OHIM) in Alicante, the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, as well as numerous infringement actions before the German court.

Among Jochen Pagenberg's trademark clients are leading producers of health care and cosmetic products and prestigious French manufacturers of luxury goods. He has also represented a publishing house and author of famous comic strips for more than 30 years.

Jochen Pagenberg is member of the advisory committee of the German Federal Ministry of Justice set up to discuss matters of European patent law. He has served for many years as an expert and sole attorney of the European Working Party for the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) and has been appointed as a member of the expert group as one of five attorneys from the EU. In 2009 Jochen Pagenberg was elected president of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) after having served as its vice president for four years. He is chairman of the special committee on European patent litigation of the AIPPI.

Since 1973, he has been a co-editor of the English-language IP journal International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich and has published a number of books and more than 80 articles on a wide range of IP subjects in German, English and French.

He lectures at the Universities of Strasbourg (CEIPI) and Alicante, and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. He has also given numerous presentations covering the entire intellectual property spectrum.