As an attorney-at-law, Reinhardt Schuster focused on patent litigation in all technical fields and was involved in numerous multi-jurisdictional proceedings in Germany and Europe, including patents, utility models, designs, know-how, unfair competition, licensing and IP-related contracts.

Reinhardt Schuster joined BARDEHLE PAGENBERG as a trainee in 1988, became a partner in 1995, Co-managing Partner from 2003-2005 and, after his re-election, again in 2009.

His international renown as a patent litigator was reflected in many personal listings, amongst them “Best Lawyers”, “Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Law Practitioners (MIP) 2009”, “Legal 500 EMEA 2009”, “Juve 2008/2009”, “Who’s Who Legal/Patents 2008”, “Chambers Global 2008” and “The Best of the Best 2008”. Reinhardt Schuster was honoured with the “IP Awards 2005” in the category of “Best achievement in patent litigation”.

He was a long-standing member of the editorial boards of the “Managing Intellectual Property” and “Patent World”, leaving a list of over 30 articles and contributions to books on IP topics, and lectured repeatedly in Europe, Asia and the United States on subjects of his professional activity.

Reinhardt Schuster, partner of BARDEHLE PAGENBERG, passed away unexpectedly on July 2, 2009 at the age of 46.

His partners and colleagues will always remember Reinhardt Schuster as an outstanding, dedicated lawyer, and above all, as a person of high human qualities, with a great sense of humour.

1988-1994	Research activities in international industrial property law at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich
1988-1990	Trainee at the firms "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler" and Kenyon & Kenyon, New York
1990-1994	Associate of the firm "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler", Munich
Since 1995	Partner of the firm
2003-2005	Co-managing Partner of the firm
2009	Co-managing Partner of the firm

1982-1987	Studies of Law at the University of Munich, Germany
1987	First State Examination
1990	Second State Examination,
	admitted as Attorney-at-law
2008	Certified as IP-specialized lawyer by the
	Düsseldorf Bar

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