EU Lawyer of the Year in Germany Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Dr. Christian Zschocke Partner Tel: +49 69 714 00 711 czschocke@morganlewis.com www.morganlewis.com
Christian Zschocke is a partner of Morgan Lewis resident in the Frankfurt office since 1997. Dr. Zschocke’s practice is concentrated in the areas of public takeovers as well as antitrust law. Dr. Zschocke is a regular speaker at seminars, and an author of numerous publications on corporate and antitrust law, including a commentary on the German Takeover Code and a handbook on the German Takeover Act. The publishers of Germany’s leading antitrust review have turned to him as the editor responsible for the section on international antitrust developments. Dr. Zschocke served as a trainee at the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate General IV for Competition.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
The Firm With 24 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive corporate transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory and intellectual property legal services to clients of all sizes—from global Fortune 100 companies to just-conceived startups—across all major industries. Our international team of attorneys, patent agents, employee benefits advisors, regulatory scientists, and other specialists—more than 1,600 legal professionals total—serves clients from locations in Almaty, Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Harrisburg, Houston, Irvine, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington.
IP Law Firm of the Year in Germany Hoffmann • Eitle Tel: +49 89 92409 0 Fax: +49 89 918356 pm@hoffmanneitle.com www.hoffmanneitle.com
Hoffmann • Eitle has been serving domestic, European and overseas clients for decades, starting as a single-patent attorney firm in Berlin in 1892. Our overseas clientele is located in particular in Japan, the U.S., South Korea and China. As an integrated IP law firm with both patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law, we are offering combined prosecution and litigation services in intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks, designs, licensing and unfair competition law, so that our clients may benefit from the focused and expert advice to achieve their objects. The appreciation of our clients for our efforts and our clients’ confidence in our work is reflected in the continuous expansion of our business over the years. Our main offices are located in Munich and London, the European patent centers representing the two most important (and intrinsically different) legal systems in Europe. More recently, we broadened the scope of our services for regional European clients by opening further offices throughout Europe. In 2009, we opened an office in Milan and today have four Italian patent attorneys – all of them simultaneously being European patent attorneys. Since 2011, two of our German patent attorneys are working from Hamburg for supporting clients in the Northern part of Germany and in Scandinavia. Our Duesseldorf office with two German patent attorneys and one Dutch patent attorney – again all of them being qualified European Patent Attorneys – was opened in 2012, thus allowing us to specifically serve clients in the
Western part of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. Our latest addition followed just this year in Spain with the opening of our Madrid branch office with two Spanish patent attorneys. Today, we have a total staff of more than 340, including about 90 IP professionals and among them European, German, British, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Belgian patent attorneys. We are regularly offering seminars and training for our clients, for example with our biennial general “Euro Law Course” for advanced beginners, and our “Life Science Seminar” for experienced IP professionals in the pharmaceutical and life science fields. In Japan, we are offering an annual “Comparative Patent Practice Conference” (CPPC) for providing comparative views of the current status and new trends in IP in the U.S. and Europe, with expert comments from a Japanese perspective. The quality of our work has been recognized by several awards which we received in the past years, including Managing Intellectual Property “Firm of the Year 2008 (Germany – Prosecution)”, JUVE “Law Firm of the Year for IP 2010” and JUVE “Law Firm of the Year for Patent Law 2010” as well as Managing Intellectual Property “Firm of the Year 2013 (Europe – EPO)”. We feel honored that our work in these difficult economic times have now been further merited, and we will continue our efforts in the future in order to provide the best service for our clients in terms of quality and efficiency, justifying the award which we have now received from Corporate INTL Magazine. 2013 Legal Awards
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