Co-founder and senior member of IP firm BARDEHLE PAGENBERG, headquartered in Munich. Admitted to the Munich and Paris bars.

Jochen Pagenberg covers all fields of IP litigation and advice. These range from the enforcement of mechanical, pharmaceutical, bio-tech, electronic and software patents to the prosecution and enforcement of trademarks and copyright matters, unfair competition, European antitrust law and licensing. Jochen Pagenberg has also acted in many arbitration and mediation proceedings as pleading attorney or arbitrator.

Patent cases regularly require close cooperation between BARDEHLE PAGENBERG’s patent attorneys, in particular when dealing with simultaneous infringement proceedings before the German courts and oppositions before the European or German Patent and Trademark Office or revocation proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Supreme Court. For more than 30 years, Jochen Pagenberg has successfully prepared and coordinated important cases with multilingual teams, organizing internal and external expert hearings in multidisciplinary strategy discussions and mock trials with former judges from a number of European jurisdictions.

He has successfully represented market leaders in high-tech fields such as semiconductors, telecommunications, medical devices and automotive technology. Through litigation or intensive business negotiations, Jochen Pagenberg has helped his clients to negotiate important licence agreements.

Important trademark cases concerned parallel importation of con-sumer products, worldwide coexistence agreements between suppliers and piracy cases, which are of particular concern for owners of famous trademarks. His practice also comprises regular representation in opposition proceedings before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) in Alicante, the European Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, as well as numerous infringement actions before the German courts.

Among Jochen Pagenberg’s trademark clients are leading produ-cers of healthcare and cosmetic products and prestigious French manufacturers of luxury goods. He has also represented a pub-lishing house and author of famous comic strips for more than 30 years.

In international surveys conducted by Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Jochen Pagenberg has repeatedly received the most nominations as the top lawyer for patent and trademark law in Germany. In the same surveys he has been voted for the third time in a row as one of the top ten patent litigators worldwide as
a result of surveys among peers. Individually recommended in "The Best of the Best 2008", " the Guide to the World's Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners 2008" and "the Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners 2009" (MIP magazine).

Jochen Pagenberg is a 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 more than seven years as an expert and sole attorney of the European Working Party for the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) and has been appoin-ted as a member of the Expert Group as one of five attorneys from the EU. In 2009 Jochen Pagenberg has been 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 Compe-tition 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 (see publications).

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

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, Munich
Since 1979	Private practice; co-founder of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich

1964–1968	Studied Law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany, and Lausanne, Switzerland
1972	Second State Examination (Bar exam)
1972–1973	Harvard Law School, USA – LL.M. 1973
1969–1979	Research assistant, later head of department at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich
1973	Admitted to the Munich Bar
1974	Dr. iur. (PhD) degree in Law, University of Munich
2002	Admitted to the Paris Bar

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