Philipp Nordmeyer

Philipp Nordmeyer is a Partner in the patents practice of Maucher Jenkins, an international intellectual property firm, working from its office in Munich. Maucher Jenkins specialises in the protection and enforcement of patents, trade marks and other intellectual property rights across Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia, and Nordmeyer's work sits at the heart of that mission on the patent side. His recognition as Patent Law Expert of the Year in Germany at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 highlights both his standing as a patents practitioner and the strength of the firm's German patent offering.

Maucher Jenkins: an international IP firm

Maucher Jenkins describes itself as delivering high-quality, seamless and cost-effective legal advice across all aspects of intellectual property. The firm brings together patent and trade mark attorneys and IP lawyers under one roof, allowing it to advise clients on the full range of rights that protect innovation and brands. Its practice areas include patent filing, evaluation and infringement; trade marks and brand protection; design protection; copyright; IP litigation and dispute resolution; IP strategy, licensing and contract law; IP transactions and exploitation; plant variety rights; employee invention law; and competition law.

The firm operates from a network of offices that spans three regions: London, Basingstoke and Edinburgh in the United Kingdom; Freiburg, Munich, Berlin and Kulmbach in Germany together with Basel in Switzerland; and Beijing and Shenzhen in China. For patent clients, this combination of European and Asian coverage is a significant advantage, because modern patent portfolios frequently need to be filed, prosecuted and defended across multiple jurisdictions in parallel. A partner based in Munich – a major centre for patent work in Germany and home to important European patent institutions – is well placed to coordinate that kind of cross-border activity.

Deep technical and sector expertise

Patent practice demands not only legal skill but genuine technical understanding, and Maucher Jenkins emphasises expertise across a wide spread of industries. The firm's stated sector knowledge covers engineering and physics, IT, software and electronics, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, life sciences, biotechnology, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, medical technology and medical devices, green energy, consumer products, media and nanotechnology. This breadth reflects the reality that a patent attorney must be able to grasp the underlying invention before advising on how best to protect it, and it enables the firm to serve innovators from start-ups to multinationals across very different fields of technology.

As a patents partner within this environment, Philipp Nordmeyer works on the securing and enforcement of patent rights – the drafting and filing of applications, the evaluation of patentability and infringement questions, and the strategic decisions that determine how an invention is protected in Germany and internationally. Clients relying on his counsel benefit from being advised by a senior practitioner who is embedded in a firm built specifically around intellectual property, rather than one where IP is a peripheral service.

Serving innovators in Germany and beyond

Germany is one of Europe's most important economies for research, engineering and manufacturing, and its companies are among the most active filers of patents in the world. For businesses of this kind, choosing the right patent adviser is a strategic decision, because the value of an innovation often depends on how robustly it is protected and how effectively that protection can be enforced. Working from Munich within Maucher Jenkins's wider European and Asian network, Nordmeyer offers German and international clients access to focused patent expertise backed by a full-service IP firm.

His recognition as Patent Law Expert of the Year in Germany at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 confirms his position as a leading patents practitioner and reflects the quality of the specialist, technically grounded advice that Maucher Jenkins provides to those seeking to protect and defend their inventions.