Always in the interest of the client.

team

We are technicians and lawyers: Our German-speaking patent attorneys and lawyers have a technical or scientific background in addition to legal training. We understand your product. This helps us not only to provide you with abstract legal information, but also to support you with practical solutions in the USA for what really matters: your business. 

Dr. Raphael Tautz

partner
patent attorney
European Patent Attorney
Dipl.-Phys. Univ.
Dr. rer. nat. (Physics)

Matthias Schuhmacher
LLM

partner
Attorney-at-Law (DC)
M.Sc./Dipl.Ing. (TUM) Mechanical Engineering
M.Sc./Dipl.Ing. (TUM) Medical Technology

Georg Hasselmann
Ph.D. JD

US Patent Attorney
US Trademark Attorney
Attorney-at-Law (DC, VA)
Juris Doctor
Ph.D. Chemistry

Michael McCandlish
JD Of Counsel


US Patent Attorney
US Trademark Attorney
Attorney-at-Law (MI)
Juris Doctor
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering

Support Staff

Not only are our lawyers trained in the German, European and US legal systems, but so is our secretariat. This means we can guarantee efficient and smooth file management.

Christina Merz

office manager
US Patent Paralegal
patent attorney's assistant

Rebecca Körfer

US Patent Paralegal
patent attorney's assistant

Selma Tabakovic

patent attorney's assistant

Prof. Dr. Dana Medina

Scientific Advisor
PhD Chemistry (Bar-Ilan University)
M.Sc. Chemistry (Bar-Ilan University)