Dr Georg Andreas Rauh > Vossius & Partner > Munich, Germany > Lawyer Profile
Vossius & Partner Offices
SIEBERTSTRASSE 3
81675 MÜNCHEN
Germany
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Dr Georg Andreas Rauh
Work Department
Patent Disputes & Patent Litigation
Position
PARTNER,
Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-Law),
UPC Representative
Career
Dr. Georg Andreas Rauh is registered as a German attorney at law and started his career at VOSSIUS in 2008. He became partner of the firm in 2014.
His professional practice is focused on advising leading national and international clients in complex patent disputes before the German infringement and nullity courts as well as the European and German Patent offices in all technical fields, with a specific focus on telecoms/consumer electronics, biotech, med-tech and pharma litigation. Dr. Rauh has been lead counsel in multiple international patent disputes and thus possesses a profound expertise in international patent law as well as the coordination of multi-national patent infringement proceedings. He is also a renowned expert in anti-trust issues surrounding IP law, in particular with regard to the FRAND defense in standard essential patent cases.
Dr. Rauh studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. During his studies and at the beginning of his career, he worked for several renowned IP law firms in Munich, Madrid, Buenos Aires and California. He finished his doctoral thesis on the topic of “Indirect (Contributory) Patent Infringement in Germany, Japan and the US” (summa cum laude, faculty price of the University of Munich) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Joseph Straus at the Max-Planck-Institute of Innovation and Competition, which has been published in the institute’s famous series on Intellectual Property Law as volume 161.
Dr. Rauh is author of multiple publications and regularly lectures on actual topics of German and European patent law. He speaks German and Spanish as a mother tongue, as well as English.
Dr. Rauh is regularly mentioned as a highly recommended litigator in leading legal rankings for Germany/Europe.
Languages
German, English, Spanish
Memberships
Rechtsanwaltskammer, GRUR, Deutsch/Spanische Juristenvereinigung, EPLAW
Lawyer Rankings
Germany > Intellectual property > Patent litigation: solicitors
At Vossius & Partner, the legal team is supported by an in-house group of patent lawyers, which enables the practice to handle a wide range of proceedings, including nullity and infringement proceedings. At the end of 2022, the firm also joined forces with Dutch law firm Brinkhof to form VOSSIUS & BRINKHOF UPC Litigators, in order to jointly act in disputes before the UPC and thus further advance its international reach. Key contacts include practice head Thure Schubert, who has expertise in employee invention law, and Georg Andreas Rauh, who is experienced in FRAND and SEP matters.