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Germany 2014

Jürgen Schneider

Vice president, global IP and IP litigation | QIAGEN

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Jürgen Schneider

Vice president, global IP and IP litigation | QIAGEN

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Jürgen Schneider works for a biotech company with over 30 subsidiaries in more than 20 countries and in a market environment that is clearly marked by its competitiveness. Peers are full of praise for how Schneider has managed to ‘ideally position his company while at the same time handling complex patent proceedings and negotiate favourable licensing agreements’. He is overall rated as ‘excellent manager and top notch lawyer’. The IP and IP litigation team is based in three locations in Europe and the US and not part of the legal department but in business development, a set up which aims at increasing commercial awareness with team members. ‘Patent disputes are always looked at in terms of business case and IP is an integral part of acquisitions’. The close integration into business development ‘allows us to consider patent aspects early on and intensively during M&A projects’. Another commercially driven approach is the lowering of internal costs by carrying out research into the current state of technology or the analysis of patent areas. ‘These documents are then being used for a patent law analysis which is mostly done in-house’. A particular success has been a major acquisition with unclear patent situation after which ‘we were able to introduce the product to the market, free of patent lawsuits brought by third parties, all that by using a combination of proceedings and negotiations’. An ongoing challenge is working in a complex legal field with international projects that is marked by its rapidly changing framework due to rulings by the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court, while at the same time another goal is to become ever more efficient. Schneider particularly values creative work. ‘A lawyer who cannot offer alternatives has no chance in the long run’. Lawyers are also part of strategic decisions and not only ‘service provider but part of our team’.

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