Dr. Tobias Stammberger

Dr Tobias Stammberger, a partner at Samson & Partner Patentanwälte in Munich, has been named Intellectual Property Advisory Expert of the Year in Germany at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects his standing within one of Germany's leading intellectual property practices and his role in advising clients on the protection and enforcement of patents, trademarks and designs in a jurisdiction that sits at the heart of the European IP system.

Dr Stammberger practises at Samson & Partner, a firm concentrated on German and European patent, trademark and design law. The firm is based in Munich, in close proximity to both the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office, a location that places its attorneys at the centre of European IP practice and provides ready access to the institutions before which much of their work is conducted. That geography is more than symbolic: it reflects a practice built to prosecute and defend rights at the highest levels of the European and German systems.

A distinctive feature of Samson & Partner is the technical breadth of its team, which brings together physicists, computer scientists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and chemists. This scientific depth allows the firm to combine rigorous technical analysis with legal expertise, an essential capability in patent work where the strength of a right often turns on the precise understanding of an underlying invention. As an adviser within this environment, Dr Stammberger is able to draw on colleagues across the technical disciplines while guiding clients through the strategic questions that shape an IP portfolio.

Dr Stammberger's standing has been recognised independently through his listing as an IP Star, a mark of the peer and market recognition that accompanies senior practitioners in the field. His advisory work encompasses the securing, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights, helping businesses to translate technical innovation into protected and commercially useful assets. It is this advisory dimension, guiding clients on how best to build and defend their IP positions, that the 2024 award specifically acknowledges.

Samson & Partner has been consistently recommended in the leading independent directories, including JUVE Patent Germany, the IAM Patent 1000, IP Stars and the Financial Times ranking of Europe's leading patent law firms, a record that reflects the firm's sustained quality over many years. Within that well-regarded practice, Dr Stammberger's expertise as an intellectual property adviser stands out. The Corporate INTL Global Awards recognise advisers who demonstrate genuine command of their field within a jurisdiction, and in naming Dr Tobias Stammberger Intellectual Property Advisory Expert of the Year in Germany for 2024, the awards affirm both his technical grounding and the strategic counsel he provides to clients protecting their innovations.