Dr Thure Schubert > Vossius & Partner > Munich, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Vossius & Partner
SIEBERTSTRASSE 3
81675 MÜNCHEN
Germany
Thure Schubert photo

Work Department

Patent Disputes & Patent Litigation

Position

PARTNER
Rechtsanwalt (Attorney-at-Law)
UPC Representative

Career

He joined VOSSIUS in 1998 and is a partner of the firm since 2005. Dr. Schubert is specialized in counselling national and international companies in the field of Intellectual Property Law. He represents his clients in litigation before all relevant German patent infringement courts as well as in arbitration and other out-of-court disputes. He also teams up with patent attorneys in patent opposition and revocation proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Federal Patent Court and the German Supreme Court. In addition, he advises national and international companies and institutions in the fields of licensing and the German Act on Employee’s Inventions, in particular relating to the drafting of contracts and remuneration schemes for employed inventors.

He often gives talks on various topics of IP Practice at national and international conferences. He is the author of many professional publications and contributing to the Münchener Vertragshandbuch zum Lizenzvertrags- und Arbeitnehmererfinderrecht as well as to the Beck’schen Formularsammlung zum Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht.

Dr. Schubert is recommended in Who’s Who Legal 2019 as “being among the world’s leading patent lawyers”.

Memberships

He is an active member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the Licensing Executives Society (LES) and the International Trademark Association (INTA).

Education

Dr. Thure Schubert is admitted as an Attorney-at-Law (Rechtsanwalt) in Germany since 1994. Dr. Schubert studied law at the Universities of Passau, Munich and Cardiff and wrote his doctorate thesis (“summa cum laude”) at the renowned Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent, copyright and competition law.

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.