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What you think is the summit is only a step up.
Lucius Aenneus Seneca, called Seneca the Younger

Dr. Dorothea Hofer

Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Phys. (Univ.),
Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney,
European Trademark & Design Attorney

+49 89 69 39 21-0hofer@pruefer.eu

Professional career

BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Dorothea Hofer has been with Prüfer & Partner since 1993 and has been a managing partner since 1998. She gained her Ph.D. in physics at the LMU Munich.
After studying physics at LMU Munich, she also worked for Siemens in the area of semiconductor physics.

LANGUAGES:
German, English, French

Specialist areas of activity:

ACTIVITIES:

  • conducting litigation proceedings:
    • patent and utility model infringement proceedings (before the District Courts of Munich, Düsseldorf, Mannheim and Hamburg and before the competent Higher District Courts)
    • opposition proceedings before the EPO and the GPTO, nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Court of Justice
  • cooperating with foreign associates in patent infringement proceedings in foreign countries such as Italy, France, Japan and the US
  • elaboration of patent applications, also with regard to the requirements of the USPTO
  • prosecution of patent application
  • advice on employee invention issues
  • elaboration of licence agreements
  • consultancy with regard to research and cooperation agreements
  • advice on trademarks and designs

SPECIAL FIELDS:

  • physics
  • medical technology
  • 2D and 3D print
  • semiconductors

Publications and memberships

Publications

D. Hofer et al., “Direct and multiple excitations in 96Zr from inelastic scattering experiments”, Nucl. Phys. A 551 (1993), 173-209

Hofer, D., Stocker, W., “A Dirac particle in a scalar potential depending on one spatial coordinate”, (1989), Phys. Lett. A, 138, 463-464

Memberships

epi – European Patent Institute
AIPPI – International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
Chamber of Patent Attorneys
VPP – Association of Intellectual Property Experts
GRUR – German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright

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Delivering success means listening, understanding, creating opportunities and taking action.

Andreas Jacob

Attorney-at-Law (Germany)
Attorney specialized in Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law
Master of Laws (Intellectual Property Law)

+49 89 69 39 21-0jacob@pruefer.eu

Professional career

BIOGRAPHY:
Andreas Jacob has been a managing partner at Prüfer & Partner since 2015 (JUVE: Munich: IP-Kanzlei Prüfer & Partner extends litigation department) and has been working there since his admittance to the bar. He is a specialist in intellectual property law and is qualified as Master of Laws (LL.M.).
Andreas Jacob studied intellectual property rights protection at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the law faculty at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. He completed his legal traineeship at the Heidelberg court.

LANGUAGES:
German, English

Specialist areas of activity

ACTIVITIES:

  • Patent disputes, opposition proceedings, nullity actions
  • Employee invention law
  • Registration and enforcement of trademarks and designs
  • Support of M&A processes in the areas of IP due diligence,
  • Purchase agreement negotiation, post-merger integration with respect to IP
  • IP contracts and their antitrust aspects
  • Border seizure procedures

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • strategic consulting in the IP area
  • litigation in the field of intellectual property rights, in particular
    • patent litigation, nullity actions
    • trademark infringement disputes
    • coordination of disputes in several states

Publications and memberships

Publications

“Produktneuheiten im Visier”, Andreas Jacob, MECHATRONIK, Volume 3-4 2014, p. 36-37

“National characteristics of the German system”, Andreas Jacob, The Trademark Lawyer Magazine, October/November 2013, p. 33 35

“Der steinige Weg des Europäischen Patents zum harmonisierten Einheitstitel”, Jürgen Feldmeier/Andreas Jacob, JUVE Handbook 2011/2012, p. 244-245

Memberships

INTA – International Trademark Association
GRUR – German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright
DAV – German Bar Association, MAV – Munich Bar Association
AGEM – Workgroup Intellectual Property & Media in the German Bar Association
Chamber of Attorneys-at-Law Munich

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Curiosity and attentiveness are the foundation of all knowledge and progress

Markus Adamczyk

Dipl.-Inf.,
European and German Patent Attorney,
European Trademark and Design Attorney
Patent Attorney/Attorney-at-law

+49 89 69 39 21-0adamczyk@pruefer.eu

Professional career

BIOGRAPHY:
Markus Adamczyk has been a partner at Prüfer & Partner since 2009 and has been working there as a legal and patent attorney.
Prior to that, he worked for Mannesmann Pilotentwicklung/Vodafone Group R&D.
After studying law at the LMU Munich, he passed his legal internship at the Bavarian Higher Regional Court. In addition, he completed a computer science course with a minor in mechanical engineering.

LANGUAGES:
German (mother tongue), English, French (basic knowledge)

Specialist areas of activity

ACTIVITIES:

  • Patent infringement proceedings before regional court of Mannheim, Higher Regional Court Karlsruhe, Regional Court/Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf, Regional Court Munich I, Higher Regional Court Munich
  • Nullity proceedings and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent Office (DPMA), the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), and the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH)
  • Filing, opposition and appeal proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office.
  • Infringement reports

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • computer-implemented inventions (software development, data bases, data network technology, cryptography and security systems, audio and video coding, search engines, user interfaces)
  • automotive technology (air-conditioning/compressors, exhaust systems, engine and system control, brake systems, airbags, chassis, sensors)
  • measurement and process technology (weighing systems, bulk transport, packaging)
  • mechatronics, precision engineering (print systems)
  • mechanical engineering (machine tool control, manipulator management, cable/tube layout)

Publications and memberships

Publications

No publications

Memberships

epi – European Patent Institute
Chamber of Patent Attorneys

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The only boundary for what you can achieve is the scope of your dreams and your readiness to work hard to make them come true.
Michelle Obama

Stephanie Pfaller

Attorney-at-Law (Germany), Business Mediator

+49 89 69 39 21-0pfaller@pruefer.eu

Professional career

BIOGRAPHY:
Stephanie Pfaller has been working at Prüfer & Partner since her admittance to the bar in September 2021. She studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Stephanie Pfaller completed her legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich.

LANGUAGES:
German, English, French (basic knowledge)

Specialist areas of activity

ACTIVITIES:

  • Filing and enforcement of trademarks
  • Implementation of application strategies in trademark matters
  • Litigation support (Trademarks / Patents / competition law (UWG))

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • Trademark law
  • Competition law (UWG)

Publications and memberships

Publications

No publications

Memberships

Chamber of Attorneys-at-Law Munich JurAlumni – Association of Alumni and Friends of the Legal Faculty of the LMU Munich

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Complex tasks are like a slalom. The aim here is the ideal line.

Marion Ziliox

Attorney-at-Law

+49 89 69 39 21-0ziliox@pruefer.eu

Professional career

BIOGRAPHY:
Marion Ziliox has been an attorney at Prüfer & Partner since 2011. Before that, she practised the profession at Bardehle Pagenberg in Munich and in a medium-sized patent law firm.
She studied law at the university of Freiburg i. Brsg.

LANGUAGES:
German, French (second mother tongue), English, Spanish, good understanding of Italian (oral and written)

Specialist areas of activity

ACTIVITIES:

  • Advice and representation in patent litigation in a wide variety of technical areas
  • Advice in regard to and drafting of agreements concerning IP-relevant matters and copyright law, in particular research and development agreements, licensing agreements, purchase agreements
  • Industry-specific experience: mechanical engineering, automotive, medical engineering, construction, rail vehicles, waste water technology, measurement technology, chemistry, pharmaceutical, entertainment electronics, software, sporting goods, fashion, furniture, luxury articles, wine

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

  • patent and trademark law
  • IP contracts
  • regularly IP-relevant antitrust and competition law
  • copyright, design and employee invention law

Publications and memberships

Publications

No publications

Memberships

No memberships

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