PRUEFER & PARTNER mbB

The chambers Prüfer & Partner was founded in 1972 by patent attorney, physicist and master optician, Lutz H. Prüfer as a pure patent attorney’s office and has quickly developed into an internationally oriented medium-sized law firm in the field of intellectual property law. A successful generation change took place in the years 1998 to 2002, when Prüfer & Partner was taken over by the patent attorneys Dr. Dorothea Hofer, Jürgen Feldmeier and Dr. Andreas Oser. Since then, Prüfer & Partner has grown continuously from less than 20 to now more than 95 employees. In 2006, the office moved to the Murenhof, a listed building, only 200 meters away from the Munich Solln station, in order to provide the growing office with adequate premises. A further milestone was achieved in 2015: through the inclusion of lawyer Andreas Jacob as a partner, Prüfer & Partner has now entrenched his legal know-how, established at an associate-level since 2006, at a partner level. This ensures the continuity of the patent and legal services for the future. By the accession of experienced patent attorney Dr. Friedrich Emmerling, the law firm was able to significantly expand its already existing expertise in patent litigation in 2016. Together with his team of several patent attorneys specialised in patent litigation, Dr. Emmerling contributes in numerous patent litigation procedures known throughout Germany. The result: a medium-sized law firm with a stable global network of partners which advises their clients not only when registering their intellectual property rights before the offices, but also efficiently supports their clients on all issues relating to intellectual property rights protection, and also defends and enforces the IP rights of their clients in court.