Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy’s practice focuses on patent litigation in all technical fields. He is also active and experienced in litigating in other IP areas such as utility model, copyright, unfair competition matters, and in negotiating and drafting IP-related contracts. The technical fields encompass, for example, medical devices, automotive engineering, telecommunications, computer technology including software, wood processing, sports equipment, and mechanical as well as plant engineering. In close and direct cooperation with the patent attorneys of the firm, Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy takes part in (parallel) nullity, opposition, and cancellation procedures before the Federal Supreme Court, the Federal Patent Court, the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office. He counsels clients also out of court, in particular in licensing matters as well as with respect to preparing for or avoiding litigation.

Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy represents national and international corporate clients as well as medium-sized businesses before all the relevant German courts. He regularly participates in multinational patent infringement cases that are frequently large scale and related to the US. At present, Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy represents in several patent infringement cases a leading US corporation in the field of glass coating technology, a German DAX listed sports equipment company in the field of sports shoe technology, a leading Finnish company in the field of fire protection water fog systems as well as several European affiliates of an international fork lift truck manufacturer. Recently, he was involved in various multinational patent suits with respect to the JPEG and MPEG standards in Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.  

Besides his practice as an attorney-at-law, Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy is engaged as instructor in the bar preparation program of the Court of Appeals of Munich since 2007. Since 2008, he teaches Intellectual Property Law at the Technical University of Munich. From 2004 until 2006, he lectured on licensing within a program for product innovation of the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. He further lectures on various IP conferences and regularly publishes articles on IP-related topics (cf. publications). He is also qualified as commercial mediator (CVM).

 

1998 - 2004	Trainee at various international law firms in Germany and at the law firm Leydig, Voit & Mayer in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and the law firm Baker Botts in Austin, Texas, USA
since 2004	Associate of the law firm "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler" in Munich, Germany
2006	Visiting attorney with the Chinese law firm East IP Legal Services in Beijing, China

1997- 2002	Legal studies at the Universities of Regensburg, Germany and Aberdeen, U.K.
2002	First State Examination
2004	Second State Examination
2004	Admitted as Attorney-at-law
2005 – 2008	Degree of Dr. iur., University of Augsburg (Thesis: „Proving and Inspecting the Object of Infringement according to German Patent Law“)
2006 – 2007	Commercial Mediator (CVM)

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