Maiwald GmbH

Marco Stief is a highly experienced lawyer, skilled in handling national and international patent infringement cases, border seizure proceedings and conflicts arising from technology-related contracts. He advises companies in the areas of technical IP rights, technology transfers and also on a wide variety of contractual matters. He acts in an advisory capacity on questions relating to design rights, competition law, employee inventions and trade secrets.

Marco has headed Maiwald’s legal department since 2017. He lectures in intellectual property rights at the University of Dresden and is associate lecturer in patent and international contract law at the University of Marburg.

Partner
Attorney-at-Law
UPC Representative
LL.M. University of Chicago

since 2017 Partner, shareholder and managing director at Maiwald

since 2013 Attorney-at-law at Maiwald

2009 - 2013 Director Legal at Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

2001 - 2009 Attorney-at-law in the „Magic Circle“ law firms Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Baker & McKenzie

German, English

GRUR DAV DAJV VPP LES Founding Member IPDR

2024 Admitted to practice before the UPC 2019 Doctoral degree (Dr iur.) from the University of Basel

2001 Admitted to the bar

2000 - 2001 Master’s degree in law (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago

1998 - 2000 Trainee lawyer in Mannheim, Singapore and Chicago

1993 - 1998 Studied law at the University of Bayreuth and the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen