The practice focuses on advice and representation in patent litigation in all technical fields; further in utility models, unfair competition and patent-relevant anti-trust law. Experience in the sectors of telecommunication, IT (including software), electronics, medical devices, automotive engineering, sports equipment, machinery and plant engineering, glass coating, brewing and food processing technology, packaging, abrasives, chemistry, biotechnology and pharma.

Tilman Müller-Stoy represents clients in multi-jurisdictional patent infringement suits, in (parallel) invalidation and opposition proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the German Federal Supreme Court. He is regularly active as lead counsel in multi-national patent infringement suits (often relating to the U.S. and to industrial standards) and preliminary injunction proceedings for patent infringement, and in so-called vindication proceedings concerning the transfer of patent rights due to unlawful usurpation. He also advises in IP-relevant contractual matters, in particular licensing, and matters of employee inventions law, as well as in mediation and arbitration proceedings.

Tilman Müller-Stoy is currently representing a leading US software corporation in a number of multi-jurisdictional patent suits in the smartphone and tablets sector, and a globally acting corporation in the field of internet telephony (Germany, USA, Japan, UK, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). He is also involved in a number of patent litigation suits with respect to the UMTS and DDC standards. Further patent infringement and patent vindication proceedings concern the sectors of electronics, automotive, pharma, chemistry, ultrasonic welding, abrasives, photovoltaics, brewing technology, sports equipment, and glass coating. His clients in these fields also include a number of highly innovative SMEs in Germany and abroad.

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IAM Patent 1000 - 2012: “creative, outside-the-box thinking” with “superb attention to detail”; he is “brilliant in court, with a calm, persuasive style.”
The Legal 500 EMEA 2012: "a fantastic ability to explain difficult technical subject matter to judges."
Chambers Global 2012: "very professional and to the point, with an understated knowledge of the law and in-depth understanding of (the client's) business goals."
Who's Who Legal - Germany 2012: “... whose work in infringement suits and parallel invalidation and opposition proceedings is top tier” (peer quote)
JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2011/2012
The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Who’s Who Legal) – Patents 2011
Chambers Global 2011: “has built a strong reputation with clients for his presentational ability and level-headed style in court”
JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2010/2011
MIP Handbook 2010
JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2009/2010
JUVE German Commercial Law Firms  2008/2009: “persuasive power at court” (client)