Patents, utility models
Drafting and filing, strategic decisions, examination before the DPMA and EPO, international applications under the PCT and coordination of national phases worldwide.
Patent Attorney · Munich · Berlin
Dr. Daniel Gruber
Patents, utility models, trade marks and designs for companies and inventors in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices. Representation before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the European Patent Office, the EUIPO, the Federal Patent Court, the Federal Court of Justice and the Unified Patent Court.
- German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt)
- European Patent Attorney
- European Patent Litigator (UPC)
- European Trademark and Design Attorney
Practice
One attorney for your file
I advise and represent clients as a sole practitioner, embedded in a professional network. I handle your matter from the first invention disclosure through examination and grant to opposition or proceedings before the Unified Patent Court.
My approach was shaped by thirteen years in the patent and licensing department of Hoechst AG and its successor companies, latterly as head of the patent group Biotechnology and Medical Devices Germany and as a member of the core team Global Patent Litigation. I know how industry views IP rights: as business assets that have to pay off.
Foreign filings are coordinated with long-standing, well-established business contacts worldwide.
Services
From filing to enforcing and defending your intellectual property
Opposition, appeal, revocation
Attacking and defending patents before the EPO, the DPMA and the German Federal Patent Court.
Patent litigation
Representation before the German Federal Patent Court and the Unified Patent Court; involvement in infringement proceedings before the German regional courts and the Federal Court of Justice.
Trade marks and designs
Filing, opposition and defence before the DPMA, the EUIPO and WIPO.
Portfolio and freedom-to-operate analysis
Managing and evaluating IP portfolios, searches, analysis of third-party IP rights.
Licensing and employee inventions
Confidentiality agreements, R&D-related agreements, licence agreements, technology transfer and German employee inventor law.
Technical fields
Scientific background
- Biochemistry and molecular biologyC12N · C12Q
- Pharmaceutical chemistryA61K · A61P
- Medical devicesA61B · A61M · A61F
- AgrochemistryA01N · A01P
- Organic chemistryC07
- Inorganic chemistryC01
- Biophysical chemistry and analyticsG01N
Right: corresponding classes of the International Patent Classification (IPC).
Profile
Career
- Entitled to represent before the Unified Patent Court
European Patent Litigator under Art. 48(2) UPCA
- Admitted as German Patent Attorney and as European Trademark and Design Attorney
Associate at Ruschke, Madgwick, Seide & Kollegen, Munich
- Gruber IP, own practice
Munich and Berlin
- Diploma in European Patent Litigation
CEIPI, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg
- Admitted as European Patent Attorney
- Patent and Licensing Department, Hoechst AG and its successor companies
- PhD, Freie Universität Berlin
Graduate scholarship of Schering AG. Thesis on novel plasminogen activators from the saliva of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus.
- Studies in biochemistry, Hanover
University of Hanover, Hannover Medical School and University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover. Diploma thesis in plant biochemistry.
Memberships
- GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
- FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys)
- LES (Licensing Executives Society)
- VPP (Association of Intellectual Property Experts)
Languages
- German, English
Contact
Meetings by appointment
Principal office
Dr. Daniel Gruberc/o SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB
Joseph-Wild-Straße 20
81829 Munich
Germany
Phone +49 89 4550340
Please do not send confidential information when first getting in touch
Email and telephone serve only to establish initial contact. Please do not send confidential documents in advance, in particular no description of an invention that has not yet been filed. Unencrypted email can be read by third parties, and any disclosure may destroy the novelty of your invention.
An attorney-client relationship is established only once I have expressly confirmed it. We will then agree on a secure way to exchange confidential information.
Legal
Legal notice
Provider
Dr. Daniel Gruber, Patentanwalt
Principal office: c/o SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB, Joseph-Wild-Straße 20, 81829 Munich, Germany
Branch office: Wittenbergplatz 1, 10789 Berlin, Germany
Phone Munich: +49 89 4550340 · Phone Berlin: +49 30 8871580 · Mobile: +49 172 3138520
Email: buero@gruber-ip.de
Professional titles
- Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney), title conferred in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Professional representative before the European Patent Office (European Patent Attorney)
- Entitled to represent before the Unified Patent Court under Art. 48(2) UPCA (European Patent Litigator)
- Professional representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Professional bodies
Patentanwaltskammer (German Chamber of Patent Attorneys), Tal 29, 80331 Munich, Germany
Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi), Bayerstraße 83, 80335 Munich, Germany
Professional regulations
Patentanwaltsordnung (PAO) and Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (BOPA), available from the Patentanwaltskammer; disciplinary regulations and Code of Conduct of the epi, available from the epi.
VAT identification number
DE 266202864
Professional liability insurance
Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Königinstraße 28, 80802 Munich, Germany
Territorial scope: worldwide, excluding activities through offices established or maintained outside Germany
Consumer dispute resolution
I am neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
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