With more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of IP and IT law, Peter Chrocziel counsels large international companies, especially in the technology, automotive and pharma industries. In doing so, he assists his clients in enforcing their IP rights.
Peter Chrocziel is especially active for clients from the US and Asia in a number of typically cross-border patent infringement procedures. His clients value his experience and knowledge of US law. In addition to that, he is also an expert for arbitration proceedings in intellectual property and has also published in that area.
A further emphasis of his professional activities is on antitrust counselling, be it with regard to licensing or in court proceedings. He has also advised on FRAND issues and represented clients in such proceedings.
Furthermore, Peter Chrocziel is active for a number of clients in their worldwide IP transactional activities. This includes corporate transactions with a focus on the area of IP/IT as well as research and development agreements and counselling in complex corporate transactions.
Recommended by practice area guides as a "go-to guy" for both intellectual property and information technology, Peter Chrocziel is recognised as "a high-calibre practitioner" and is regularly listed as a recommended expert for litigation and licensing.
Licensing Executives Society (German president 1990-1995, international president 2005-2006)
AIPPI
American Bar Association
EPLAW
GRUR
Münchener Kommentar, Europäisches und Deutsches Wettbewerbsrecht, Band 1: Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht, Gruppenfreistellungsverordnungen C. GVO Nr. 1217/2010 (F&E-GVO) (together with Moritz Graf v. Merveldt), Verlag C.H. Beck, 2. Auflage 2015.
Handbuch Mediation, § 39 Mediation im Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (together with Friedrich R. von Samson-Himmelstjerna), Verlag C.H. Beck, 3. Auflage 2016.
Handbuch des Vertriebsrechts, § 48 Computer und Software, Verlag C.H. Beck, 4. Auflage 2016.
Intellectual Property and Competition Law (herausgegeben mit Moritz Lorenz und Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont), Verlag Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
Lizenzverträge in der Insolvenz, in: Festschrift für Siegfried Beck zum 70. Geburtstag, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2016, S. 63.
International Arbitration of Intellectual Property Disputes (together with Boris Kasolowsky, Robert Whitener, Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont), Kooperationswerke der Verlage C.H. Beck - Hart - Nomos, 1. Auflage 2017.
Münchener Vertragshandbuch, Band 4: Wirtschaftsrecht III, I.2. Vertragsvorbereitende und -begleitende Maßnahmen sowie IX., 1-5 Lizenz- und Know-how-Verträge, Verlag C.H. Beck, 8. Auflage 2018.
Since 1997 Peter Chrocziel is a Honorary Professor for Intellectual Property at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Bavaria, where he teaches patent, trademark and competition law.
Partner at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG in Munich, Germany
Certified Licensing Professional
Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, for patent, trademark and competition law
Licensed to practice at the United States Court of International Trade
Licensed to practice at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)
Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (and its respective predecessor law firms)
Attorney-at-law at Preu Bohlig in Munich, Germany
Visiting Expert at the European Commission, DG Competition
Foreign Associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering in Washington D.C., USA
Licensed to practice as an attorney-at-law at the Supreme Court New York, USA
Master of Comparative Jurisprudence at New York University, USA
Doctoral thesis at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Licensed to practice as an attorney-at-law
Second State Law Examination
Practical legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg , Germany
First State Law Examination
Legal studies at Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany
