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Christian Wende

Christian Wende is a partner in the firm’s IP Procurement and Portfolio Management practice group. With a strong technical foundation, Christian works extensively in the fields of medical engineering, automotive technologies, mechanical engineering, mechanics, and nanotechnology. His practice focuses on intellectual property protection, enforcement, and strategy. His work encompasses patent law, design law, trademark law, utility models, and patent prosecution, opposition, invalidity, and infringement proceedings. He also advises on intellectual property due diligence in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and venture capital transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Christian was a partner at a Munich-based partnership of patent lawyers and lawyers-at-law. In addition to his practice, he is a frequent lecturer and author on intellectual property topics and has served as a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Hagen since 2011.

  • Recognized by Juve Patent as Recommended Individual Patent Filing 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Christian Wende is a registered representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)
  • Member of the German Patent Bar Association
  • Member of the German Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP)
  • Member of FICPI and Chair of FICPI CET 4
  • Member of the SACEPO (Main SACEPO and SACEPO WP/Q)
  • Member of the State Examining Commission for Hunting of the Free State of Bavaria 
  • Faculty Member of the CSI Foundation
  • Adjunct Professor Technical University of Munich (TUM) since 2011, Lecture “Introduction to Patent, Trademark and Design Law for Engineers”
  • March 2023, Waseda University Tokyo, Conference on the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, lecture on “The Advent of the UPC”.
  • September 2016, IIP Institut Tokyo: Report about Brexit – Situation and Impact on IP Strategy (Brexit — 現在の状況に関する報告 ユニタリ特許制度への 影響、ならびに、 それから 予想されるヨーロッパの IP戦略への影響について.
  • Online Commentary BeckOK Designrecht, Hrsg. Vohwinkel.
  • Rowald, A, et al.: Activity-dependent spinal cord neuromodulation rapidly restores trunk and leg motor functions after complete paralysis. Nature Medicine, 2022.
  • Wende, Christian; „Und Patente schützen doch!“ published in MED engineering 05-06/2011, S. 60-63, Hanser Verlag. 
  • Tuma, Gregor; Wende, Christian; EP 1 593 350 B1 - [DE] Marknagel-Tracking [EN] Tracking of intramedullary pin [FR] Localisation d'un clou centromedullaire, München, 2004.
  • DE 20 2005 012 454 U1: Informationssystem (BiTOS GmbH).
  • Wende, Christian; Modellgestützte Entwicklung und Optimierung eines Leberdialysesystems; Dissertation am Lehrstuhl für Medizintechnik der Technischen Universität München, München, 2007.
     
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