Wolfgang advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters involving their most valuable intellectual property assets in life sciences, digital, and high-tech industries.

His subjects of focus include research and development collaborations, complex licensing agreements, and other technology transactions, as well as know-how protection strategies, and employee invention law. He also has substantial experience in litigating patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property assets, often in a multijurisdictional context. In addition, Wolfgang and his team frequently clear trademarks and ad campaigns and prosecute trademark applications.

Wolfgang is co-editor of our MoFo Life Sciences Blog.

Wolfgang is a partner of Morrison Foerster based in our German office in Berlin.

Representative Transactional Matters

• U.S.-based BioTech fund on various research collaborations and other transactions with German start-ups or research institutions.

• Negotiate multimillion-euro strategic partnership between two AgTech leaders concerning the development and commercialization of pest-resistant transgenic traits.

• Craft global multi-million collaboration regarding AI-powered robotic MaaS.

• UK-based digital health company on product roll-out of RPM applications in Germany; coordinate international expansion.

• Advise numerous German start-ups on their U.S. expansion.

• Draft diverse global patent and know-how license agreements in the areas of AgTech and life sciences—including gene licensing and licensing of genome editing technologies (e.g., CRISPR)—and medical devices; draft correlating supply and distribution agreements.

• Structure IP rights in connection with joint ventures and other M&A transactions, including the carve-out of a patent-heavy semiconductor business comprising nine jurisdictions into a German–U.S. joint venture.

• Advise on government-funded, multi-partner R&D projects and/or R&D projects with academic institutions, as well as on employee invention law.

Representative Contentious IP Matters

• Lead counsel in an international dispute between software companies on rights and obligations following termination of a multi-million licensing and distribution arrangement; coordinate local counsel.

• Defend Japanese chip manufacturer in high-profile SEP-litigation; advise on global settlement arrangement.

• Represent leading internet retailer in patent infringement and concurrent invalidity proceedings in the context of a multijurisdictional dispute concerning touch-screen technology.

• Represent diverse pharmaceutical and life sciences companies in national and cross-border patent infringement proceedings and other technology-related disputes, including preliminary injunctions as well as pre‑trial discovery and inspection proceedings, concerning, inter alia, drug-coating technologies, toner cartridges, medicinal gases, transgenic plants, and vaccines.

• Conduct trademark, copyright, and false advertising litigation, including, most notably, a high-profile trademark litigation for a German bank, and a nine-country cross-border trademark litigation involving a famous pharmaceutical brand.