Attorney-at-law and European Patent Attorney. Patent infringement and validity litigation, including opposition and appeal proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office as well as national revocation proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Supreme Court. 

His technical fields of expertise are medical devices, telecommuni-cations and the automotive industry. A further focus is patent prosecution in these sectors. He also advises his clients in matters relating to licensing patents, particularly with regard to technology transfer under German and European antitrust and competition law.

Johannes Heselberger has successfully conducted important patent infringement proceedings, often across national borders, for client companies of various sizes that are world leaders in their techno-logy.

He regularly lectures on topics in the fields of patent infringement and patent valuation.

Johannes Heselberger is individually recommended in Best Lawyers 2010, in the Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners 2009 (MIP magazine) and in Chambers Europe 2010 as one of the leading lawyers for patent litigation, and in JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2009/2010.

1991–1994	Trainee at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich
1994–1999	Associate at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich and Paris
Since 1999	Partner of the firm

1984–1990	Studied Physics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, graduating with a “Diplom-Physiker” degree
1985–1991	Studied Law at the University of Regensburg
	First State Examination (degree-level qualification)
1991–1994	Training; studied Law in Munich, Speyer, Germany, and Houston, Texas
1994	Second State Examination (bar admission exam)
	Admitted as attorney-at-law
1999	Admitted as European Patent Attorney

German, English