Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy’s practice focuses on advice and representation in patent litigation in all technical fields, further in utility models and technology-related copyright and unfair competition matters, product imitation and patent-relevant anti-trust law. Recent or current cases relate to medical devices, automotive engineering, telecommunication, IT (including software), consumer electronics, sports equipment, machinery and plant engineering, glass coating, brewing and food processing technology, packaging, abrasives and pharma.

He is regularly involved in multi-jurisdictional patent infringement suits, often relating to the U.S. and to industrial standards. Together with the patent attorneys of the firm, Tilman Müller-Stoy is representing clients in (parallel) patent invalidation and opposition proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the German Federal Supreme Court. He is often active in preliminary injunction proceedings for patent infringement, and in so-called patent vindication proceedings concerning the transfer of patent rights due to unlawful usurpation. He also advises clients strategically out-of-court in IP-relevant contractual matters, in particular licensing, and with respect to preparing or avoiding litigation. Further professional experience includes matters of employee inventions law and arbitration proceedings.

At present, Tilman Müller-Stoy is representing a number of subsidiaries of a globally acting U.S. corporation in the field of medical devices in patent infringement proceedings. He was involved in various multi-jurisdictional patent suits with respect to the UMTS and DDC standards, recently also with respect to the JPEG and MPEG standards, and in a series of proceedings on behalf of a globally active telecommunications company concerning pre-paid telephone cards. On the defence side, Tilman Müller–Stoy represented a market-leading Chinese manufacturer of LCD panels in a patent infringement suit. Other representations include a Dax-listed sports equipment company, one of the premier German automotive companies and a number of mid-sized enterprises with regard to abrasives, ultrasonic welding and brewing technologies. Further, he represents an R&D institution in patent vindication proceedings (glass coating) and participates in proceedings before the ICC International Court of Arbitration relating to a pox vaccine. 

Tilman Müller-Stoy has been repeatedly recommended in “JUVE German Commercial Law Firms”. Since 2007 he serves as an instructor in the bar preparation programme of the Munich Appeal Court. Since 2008 he lectures on IP Law at Munich Technical University. He regularly speaks on German and international IP Conferences and publishes on the topics of his practice (see publications), most recently also as a member of the editorial board of the EPLAW Patent Blog (blog of the European Patent Lawyers Association). He is qualified as certified specialist in IP law and as commercial mediator (CVM).

 

 

1998–2004	Trainee at various international law firms in Germany and at US law firms Leydig, Voit & Mayer in Chicago, Illinois, and Baker Botts in Austin, Texas
2004-2009	Associate at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler in Munich
2006	Visiting attorney at East IP Legal Services in Beijing, China
Since 2010	Partner at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler in Munich

1997–2002	Studied Law at the universities of Regensburg, Germany, and Aberdeen, UK
2002	First State Examination (degree-level qualification)
2004	Second State Examination (bar admission exam)
2004	Admitted as attorney-at-law
2005–2008	Awarded “Dr. iur.” (PhD) degree in Law, University of Augsburg, Germany (thesis: “Proving and Inspecting the Object of Infringement according to German Patent Law”)
2006–2007	Commercial mediator (CVM)
2009	Certified as a specialist IP lawyer by the Munich Bar Council

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