BARDEHLE PAGENBERG Team
Tobias Wuttke
Dr. jur.

Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt), Certified IP lawyer,
UPC Representative, PartnerLocation Munich
Languages: German, English+49 89 928 05-0
wuttke@bardehle.deDr. Tobias Wuttke is an attorney-at-law who specializes in national andcross-border patent litigation. Influential rankings confirm his reputation as one ofGermany’s leading patent litigators. Tobias Wuttke’s expertise stems fromhundreds of patent infringement and validity proceedings. He advises blue chipcompanies acting on a global level, innovative SMEs, and start-ups in the areas oftelecommunications (SEPs in particular), medical technology, automotive, and lifesciences.
Tobias Wuttke focuses on the economic perspective of the patent disputes heconducts. His primary goal is to achieve the optimal commercial result for hisclients. He considers patent litigation to be inextricably linked to risk
management.
Tobias Wuttke regularly gives presentations on topical issues regarding patentlaw at universities, offices, and associations, and – as an author – he activelypromotes the distribution and development of patent law.

Legal Areas
Rei vindicatio

Patent Valuation

Licensing & Technology Transfer

Trademarks

Patent Litigation

Employee Inventions

Unfair Competition Law

Oppositions and Nullity

Designs

Due Diligence

Antitrust Law

Unitary Patent

Unified Patent Court

Industries

Mechanical Engineering

Medical Devices

Chemistry, Pharma & Life Sciences

Software, IT & Computer Technology

Telecommunications

Automotive

Recommended inWuttke ›is a seasoned litigator who is very experienced in the technology sector‹. He iscommercially aware and accurately weighs up risk to provide clear recommendations to hisfollowing.
IAM Patent 1000, 2024

Tobias Wuttke handles a notable caseload representing clients from the biotechnology,
chemicals and technology sectors in patent infringement litigation.
Chambers Global, 2024

A specialist in cross-border litigation strategy, Wuttke focuses on the economic perspectiveof every dispute he conducts.
IAM Patent 1000, 2023

Tobias is very smart and a critical thinker. He is a good writer, can think on his feet, and isvery responsive and hard-working.
Chambers Global and Europe, 2023

He provides an extremely valuable and on-point analysis of issues.
Chambers Global and Europe, 2023

Tobias is very reliable, cost effective and produces high-quality results.
WTR 1000, 2023

Tobias Wuttke garners glowing endorsements as sources laud his superb handling of
high-stakes domestic and international IP litigation proceedings.
Who’s Who Legal, IP Patents 2022

Publications
Tobias regularly publishes on topics of Intellectual Property innumerous journals and expert blogs, e.g., Reports of Germany Patent
Attorneys, GRUR-Prax, and the EPLAW Blog. Additionally, heco-authored the Practitioner’s book: Know-how protection and theBack Online Manual on Patent Law.

Lectures & Seminars
Tobias gives presentations at international and German symposiums ona regular basis. He also is a lecturer of the Executive MBA of theTechnical University of Munich and at the Technical University Ilmenau,
where he lectures on the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court.

Memberships
Tobias is a member of EPLAW, the Advisory Board of the EPLAW PatentBlog, the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property(GRUR), the Association for Intellectual Property Professionals (VPP),
the Licensing Executives Society (LES), the German-Japanese Business
Association (DJW), and the American Intellectual Property Law
Association. Tobias is also involved in the US-based Sedona
Conference pertaining to global patent litigation issues.

Curriculum Vitae

2023

Registration as a Representative before the UPC

2023 - today

Partner of the firm2012 - today

Lecturer for International Patent and Procedural Law at multiple
universities of applied sciences

2010 - 2022

Head of the Litigation Department at Meissner Bolte

2006 - 2009

Associate at Allen & Overy

2004 - 2006

Legal clerkship at the Hamburg Higher District Court

2004 - 2006

Studies of Law at the University of London2002 - 2004

Research assistant with Prof. Dr. Bornkamm (Presiding Judge at theGerman Federal Court of Justice, retd.)

2002 - 2004

Member of the research training group of the University of Freiburg,Germany, funded by the German Research Foundation (DeutscheForschungsgesellschaft, DFG)

1998 - 2002

Studies of Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and theUniversidad de Sevilla, Spain