Working with our Munich Office

Our Munich office is a fully operational Mewburn Ellis office. We have invested in it heavily, and we have worked hard to grow it from the ground up. We are proud to say that our Munich team has increased to a significant size, and we now have over 15 colleagues permanently based in our Munich office. We intend to expand further too.

Led by partner Tanis Keirstead, the Munich team currently includes five partners. In addition to Tanis there are three German patent attorney partners and one German trade mark partner. We also have three qualified attorneys together with a number of highly skilled German paralegals “Patentanwaltsfachangestellte”) who work alongside them to offer a high quality and stable service for clients looking for EUIPO, DPMA and EPO services.

As such, our Munich team include patent specialists who work across the engineering, life sciences and chemistry technical fields; as well as experienced trade mark attorneys with expertise across all aspects of German, European and international trade mark law.

The Munich team work closely and effectively with UK based colleagues to ensure our clients benefit from the entire depth and breadth of expertise available within Mewburn Ellis.

In recent years, the cost of filing and prosecuting applications at the EPO has risen. Together with the relatively strict examination at the EPO, many international applicants are now looking to the national route instead of the EPO - in particular, they are looking at filing UK and German patent applications instead of EP applications. At Mewburn Ellis we are extremely well placed to service this renewed interest in the national route.

We offer a one-stop shop for filing and prosecuting UK and German national patent applications. Further, our integrated way of working means that our clients benefit greatly from our UK and German attorneys working closely with one another on related cases across the portfolio. On the one hand, our integrated approach leads to appreciable cost benefits for our clients, resulting from streamlined advice and simpler lines of communication. On the other hand, it leads to a more harmonised approach in the management of their UK and German patent portfolios, which ultimately strengthens our clients’ IP position in the marketplace.