Eisenführ Speiser strengthens its team with two experienced German attorneys and thus complements its capacities for national and international patent infringement and validity actions. The patent litigation specialists are moving from the mixed law firm Meissner Bolte and will join the Eisenführ Speiser office at UPC location in Munich.

"We are extremely pleased to have gained two experienced and dynamic patent litigators in Philipp Rastemborski and Florian Henke. We are convinced that both fit very well into our growing patent litigation team and that we are now well positioned at the UPC location in Munich in addition to our recent reinforcement at the UPC location in Hamburg. We are strengthening our team with a litigation experienced attorney with a broad technical understanding and a patent attorney experienced in dispute proceedings with technical expertise in mechanical engineering," says Dr. Lars Birken, Managing Director of Eisenführ Speiser. "We are thus continuing our strategic growth and increasing our clout in national and international infringement proceedings," comments Managing Director Dr. Julian Eberhardt. Philipp Rastemborski and Dr. Florian Henke have many years of experience in demanding international large-scale proceedings for companies in the fields of digital technologies, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering.

Philipp Rastemborski and Florian Henke add: "We are very pleased to join the Eisenführ Speiser team in the future. The firm is excellently positioned, so that in the future we will be able to advise clients in a modern environment that provides an excellent basis for our strategic orientation and focus. We would like to thank our previous colleagues and clients, with whom we look back on successful years in Meissner Bolte's patent litigation practice."

Philipp Rastemborski will join Eisenführ Speiser on 1 August 2023, Florian Henke will join at a later date.

About Philipp Rastemborski:

Philipp Rastemborski, LL.M. (Edinburgh) specializes in national and cross-border patent infringement and parallel validity proceedings. His expertise lies in the representation in complex infringement and nullity proceedings in the enforcement of standard-essential patents as well as any antitrust issues related thereto. In addition, he advises on utility model and design law as well as on the protection under competition law. Philipp Rastemborski has been involved in major international disputes concerning the enforcement of standard-essential patents in the mobile phone and automotive sectors as well as in patent disputes in the fields of printer toner, e-cigarettes and hybrid braking systems. For many years, he advised and represented a leading German manufacturer in a litigation campaign concerning child car seat technology.

Furthermore, Philipp Rastemborski has experience in arbitration proceedings and the drafting of license programs and agreements as well as their enforcement also before arbitration courts.

Philipp Rastemborski is the author of numerous articles from patent litigation practice on competition law aspects in patent disputes and is familiar with various technologies. He advises, for example, in the technical field of automotive, video and audio coding, and electronics.

Philipp Rastemborski is frequently recommended for patent litigation.

About Florian Henke:

Dr.-Ing. Florian Henke specializes in patent, utility model and design law ,in particular advising medium-sized and large companies on the strategic placement of intellectual property rights, including the drafting of patent and design applications and their representation up to grant. Florian Henke has special experience in the enforcement of patents against infringers and in parallel opposition and nullity proceedings. Florian Henke has become known in particular for representation of the retail company Netto Marken-Discount in patent litigation concerning the German deposit system and by representing the Belparts Group NV in a patent dispute concerning electronic control valves for heating and cooling systems.

In addition, Florian Henke has experience in preparing opinions on validity , infringement and circumvention of patents.

Florian Henke has a background in mechanical engineering, handling various technologies, in particular in the fields of fluid mechanics, process engineering, thermodynamics, materials, manufacturing technology, control, sports equipment, medical technology, robotics as well as image processing and computer-implemented inventions.