Dr Michael Maikowski

Maikowski & Ninnemann is a patent attorney firm with offices in Berlin, Leipzig and Munich. We offer to our clients our experience and expertise in the field of intellectual property protection, for protecting your inventions, your trademarks and your designs as well as for enforcing and utilizing your intellectual property rights.

In today’s world markets open up globally. Business across national and continental borders is part of our everyday life. At the same time innovation cycles become shorter and companies compete on the entire world. In this surrounding we stand by your side as patent attorneys for all your questions and concerns relating to industrial property rights, for protecting your intellectual property in Germany, in Europe and worldwide. Our clients are regional mid-size firms as well as large global companies and small start-ups. Taking personal care of our client’s interests lies in the center of our strategic thinking and working. Whether your company is large or small, you will find a permanent and personal counsel in our firm – this is the basis for an individual, trusting relationship that is fundamental to our mutual success.

We are a patent attorney firm in which your questions and concerns are handled directly by your personal, trusted counsel – this way client and attorney communicate smoothly and effectively on a common level. This special, trusting relationship is an important basis to achieve the best solutions for enforcing and utilizing your industrial property rights. As a firm with decade-long tradition we have a rich experience and an excellent knowledge in the field of intellectual property protection – you will find patent attorneys in our firm having a specific knowledge in various technical fields and standing by your side as counsels with dedication for your success.

Dr Michael Maikowski
Diplom-Ingenieur / German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trademark Attorney

Curriculum Vitae:

• studies in chemical engineering and chemistry at the TU Berlin
• doctoral degree (1971)
• studies in law at the FU Berlin
• patent attorney with own firm (1977-89), founding partner of Maikowski & Ninnemann (since 1990)

Activities:

• German, European and international patent applications (in particular mechanical engineering and chemistry including chemical engineering)
• national and international trademark law
• litigation of patents, utility models and trademarks
• preparation of license and cooperation agreements
• counselling in the employee's invention law

Engagement:

• tutor for seminars for German patent attorney candidates
• member of the council of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)
• chair of the finance committee of the epi
• treasurer of the German national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
• member of the executive commitee of the AIPPI
• member of the board of the district group GRUR Berlin-Brandenburg
• member of the examining commission for the admission of German patent attorneys
• chair of the professional education committee of the Patentanwaltskammer

Languages: German, English