Grünecker

Partner

Martin Dropmann has been a patent attorney for several decades, providing comprehensive consulting services for medium-sized companies across all aspects of intellectual property. With extensive experience, he evaluates innovations for their potential to establish a monopoly and advises on developing international strategies for obtaining patents and designs. This includes thorough searches for conflicting rights and devising strategies to facilitate the market launch of innovations, ensuring freedom from third-party IP rights both domestically and internationally; in this endeavour, he collaborates closely with fellow attorneys abroad.

For multinational corporations, Martin Dropmann primarily handles proceedings to secure optimal protection through patents or invalidate corresponding third-party rights before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office.

Passionately advocating for our client’s positions in infringement or validity proceedings concerning technical property rights, including cases before the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH), Martin Dropmann also engages in activities at industrial trade fairs. Here, he swiftly and effectively implements attack and defence strategies pertaining to claims of registered protection rights and resulting from competition law. He enjoys collaborating with colleagues in the firm having legal background for synergistically leveraging the legal and technical expertise to benefit our clients.

Martin Dropmann’s expertise in employee invention law is founded on years of consulting experience.

His background in mechanical engineering studies at the RWTH, coupled with a doctorate in materials science, equips him to offer comprehensive advice across all technical domains of mechanical engineering and materials science. Through extensive consulting work, he has also developed profound technical insights into electrical engineering, particularly within electromobility.

German, English

Martin Dropmann is a member of FICPI, GRUR, and AIPLA.

Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen: Diploma in mechanical engineering, 1989 Doctorate, 1993 Research on biomedical engineering at the University of Utah, USA Research on plastics engineering and materials science at Penn State University, USA and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Partner at Grünecker, since 1998