Christian Riege

Christian Riege is a partner and European patent attorney at Cabinet CAPRI, a Paris intellectual property firm specialising in patents and industrial property. At the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, CAPRI was recognised as Patent Law Firm of the Year in France, an award that reflects the firm's technical depth and its standing among the country's specialist patent practices.

Mr Riege is both a French Industrial Property Counsel (Conseil en Propriété Industrielle) and a European Patent Attorney (Mandataire Européen), and he has practised in Paris since 1992. Born in Munich in 1968, he studied physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, specialising in optics and biomechanics, before completing his patent training at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) in Strasbourg, the leading institution for the formation of patent professionals in France. This grounding in the physical sciences, combined with formal patent qualifications, equips him to bridge the technical and legal worlds that patent practice demands.

He has been an associate at Cabinet CAPRI since January 2003, and he practises across the broad technical fields of mechanics, physics and electronics. Within these areas he has developed particular specialisms in the packaging of cosmetics and perfumery, in prostheses and implants, in home automation, and in optical glassware, reflecting the diverse industries that rely on patent protection to safeguard their innovations. His membership of professional bodies including AIPPI, FICPI, ACPI and the epi (the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office) situates him firmly within the international patent community.

Patent law is among the most technically exacting of the intellectual property disciplines. Securing and defending a patent requires not only a command of the relevant law and procedure before national offices and the European Patent Office, but also the ability to understand the underlying invention in depth and to describe and claim it with precision. Cabinet CAPRI's work centres on this demanding intersection of science and law, guiding inventors and companies through the drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications and supporting them in protecting their rights, and Mr Riege's scientific background and long experience make him well suited to the most technically complex mandates.

The firm serves clients whose competitive advantage rests on innovation, and for whom robust patent protection is essential to commercial success. In fields such as medical implants, consumer-product packaging, connected home technologies and optical products, the value of an invention can depend entirely on the strength and scope of the patent that protects it. A practice able to combine genuine technical understanding with procedural expertise before the European and French patent systems offers clients the assurance that their innovations will be protected effectively and defended where necessary.

Through his work at Cabinet CAPRI, Christian Riege exemplifies the blend of scientific training and legal expertise that defines the best of French patent practice. The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition as Patent Law Firm of the Year in France affirms the firm's specialist standing and the confidence its clients place in its counsel. For inventors, research-driven companies and industrial groups seeking to secure and enforce their patent rights in France and across Europe, the firm offers experienced, technically grounded representation led by qualified French and European patent attorneys with deep expertise in mechanics, physics and electronics. Backed by Mr Riege's scientific training and decades of practice, the firm gives innovators the assurance that their inventions will be described, claimed and defended with the precision that effective patent protection demands.