Co-founder and senior partner of the IP firm Bardehle Pagenberg with main office in Munich. Admitted to the Munich and Paris bars.
Jochen Pagenberg covers all fields of IP litigation and consultation. There is no technical or legal field of IP in which he has not represented clients, ranging from the enforcement of mechanical, pharmaceutical, biotech and electronic patents to the prosecution and litigation of trademarks and copyrights, unfair competition, software and licensing. Jochen Pagenberg has been acting in a number of international arbitration proceedings as pleading attorney or arbitrator.
Patent cases regularly require a close cooperation between litigators and patent attorneys of BARDEHLE PAGENBERG, in particular when infringement proceedings before the courts and oppositions before the European or German Patent and Trademark Office or revocation proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Supreme Court have to be dealt with in parallel. Attorneys from other countries join the team when actions are filed in different countries. In more than 30 years, Jochen Pagenberg has gained a broad experience in successfully preparing and coordinating important cases with multilingual teams, organizing internal and external expert hearings in multi-discipline strategy discussions and mock trials with former judges from a number of European jurisdictions.
Important patent cases of Jochen Pagenberg involved the representation of market leaders in high tech fields such as DRAMs, pharmaceuticals, biotech, electrical and medical devices, telecommunication and network technology, as well as automotive technology on behalf of leading car manufacturers and several European suppliers.
Partly as a result of litigation, partly after intensive business negotiations, Jochen Pagenberg has successfully helped his clients to negotiate important license agreements in a number of technical fields such as plant genetics, laser measurement systems, aviation technology and nuclear energy.
Important trademark cases concerned unlawful parallel importation of consumer products, worldwide delimitation agreements between suppliers of electronic components, opposition proceedings before the Boards of Appeals of the Community Trademark Office (OHIM), the European First Instance Court and the European Court of Justice, as well as numerous infringement actions before German courts.
Areas where trademark law and copyright law overlap are counterfeiting and piracy cases which are of particular concern for owners of famous trademarks that Jochen Pagenberg has successfully litigated before the courts. Among his clients are the leading producers of food products, body care and household goods, healthcare products, prestigious French perfume, body care and champagne companies and media producers such as a publishing house of famous cartoons which he has represented for more than 25 years.
In two international surveys by the publication Who is Who of Business Lawyers Jochen Pagenberg received the most nominations as the "Number one lawyer” for patent law and the “Leading Lawyer for Trademark Legal Expertise” in Germany.
Jochen Pagenberg is member of the Advisory Committee on patent litigation of the German Justice Department and has been working since more than seven years as expert and only attorney of the Intergovernmental European Working Party for the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA). He is Vicepresident of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW); Chairman of the Special Committee of the AIPPI on Litigation concerning European Patents.
He is the long-year co-editor of the English language IP journal IIC and has published a number of books and more than eighty articles in German, English and French (see publications).
Lecturer/visiting professor at the Universities of Strasbourg and Alicante, and the Munich Industrial Property Law Center (MIPLC) of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich.
| 1970 | Trainee at Cabinet Mathély; Paris |
| 1969-1979 | Research Assistant, later Head of Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich |
| since 1973 | Private practice; co-founder of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich |
| 1964-1968 | Legal studies at the Universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany and Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1968/1972 | State Examination and Bar Exams in Munich |
| 1972-1973 | Harvard Law School, USA - LL.M. 1973 |
| 1969-1979 | Research Assistant, later Head of Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law |
| since 1973 | Admitted as attorney-at-law, Munich Bar; Co-founder of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich |
| 1974 | Degree of Dr. iur., University of Munich |
| 2002 | Admitted to the Paris Bar |
German, English, French
