Martin Köhler

Practice Areas

Patents

Trademark & Design

Unfair competition & Trade secrets

Career

Martin Köhler has been an attorney since 1998. He is specialized in patent infringement litigation and is regularly active in trademark and design rights enforcement as well as in unfair competition litigation. Outside court, his other work includes providing advice on licensing, research and development agreements as well as on employee invention matters.

Martin regularly represents clients in the areas of electronics, telecoms, mechanical and chemical engineering, automotive technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

In addition to his legal studies at the Universities of Saarbrücken/Nancy and Trinity College Dublin he has completed a foundation degree (D.E.U.G.) and postgraduate studies (D.E.S.S.) in French law.

Martin publishes regularly on intellectual property issues and is a speaker at conferences on patent law issues. He is also a lecturer at the Hagen Law School.

Professional Memberships

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)

Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles (APRAM)

International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)

European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)

German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)

Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)

Licensing Executives Society (LES)

Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP)

Publications

Reimann/Köhler/Hahn, „International Patent Litigation, Global Law and Business, 2nd ed. (2018)

Köhler/Gehlke, in: Nicholas Fox (ed.), Intellectual Property in Electronics and Software: A Global Guide to Rights and Their Applications – Germany, August 2013 (Intellectual Property in Electronics and Software).

Köhler, Unitary Patent: Complexity or simplification, Contratto e impresa Europa, Luglio-Dicembre 2012, p. 557-568

Köhler, A la recherche d’une protection juste des inventions: le point sur la contrefaçon en Allemagne, Propriétés intellectuelles no. 44 (Juillet 2012), p. 371-374

Osterrieth/Köhler/Haft (Herausgeber), Patentrecht, Festschrift für Thomas Reimann zum 65. Geburtstag, 2009

Köhler, in: Industrial Property Law – Copyright Law – Media Law, Commentary, Carl Heymanns Verlag 2008 (patent law; co-author)

Köhler, License Agreements and Anti-Trust Law, Berlin Verlag 2007

Köhler, Enforcement of patents for electronic inventions, Patent World, World Focus: IP & High Technology, October 2006, 17-19

Ehlers/Bausch/Köhler Amendment of Patent Claims after Grant, AIPPI Q189, published in: GRUR Int., 2006, p. 679 ff.

Köhler, Standard related patents: between fast track litigation and competition dead end, Patentworld, July/August 2005, p. 22 ff.

Köhler/Haft/Birde/Butler/Sigworth, The damages test – Comparing damages for Infringement in the US and Germany, Patentworld 2005, Issue I 77, p. 10 ff.

Köhler/Cohen, Disclosure in European Patent Litigation: Towards an Efficient Protection of Patent Owners, in: IP Litigator 2005, Vol. 11, number 2, p. 1 ff.

Köhler, Disclosure in European patent litigation – Towards an efficient protection of patent owners, IP Litigator 10/2004 (co-author: Cohen)

Köhler, Der Schutzbereich von Pharma-Patenten: Mehr Rechtssicherheit bei Grenzwerten und Bereichsangaben, Pharmarecht 2003, 37-39

Köhler, Patente für Medizinprodukte – Chancen und rechtliche Umsetzung, Medizinprodukterecht 2003, 114-117

Köhler, Die Haftung nach dem UN-Kaufrecht im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Vertrag und Delikt, Studienreihe des Max Planck Instituts zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht, vol. 111; Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen) 2003

Köhler, Tissue Engineering: Rechtliche Grundlagen und neue Entwicklungen, Pharmarecht 2002, 325-333 (co-authors: Dieners, Sonnenschein)

Osterrieth/Köhler, Aktuelle Fragen des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes (II) – Patente erfolgreich durchsetzen, Medizinprodukterecht 2002, 57-61

Reimann/Köhler, Der Schutzbereich europäischer Patente zwischen Angemessenheit und Rechtssicherheit, GRUR 2002, 931-935

Köhler, Litigation on infringement of European Patents on medical devices, Regulatory Affairs Focus, 2001, 22-24

Köhler, Brevetabilité et contrefaçon des logiciels en Allemagne, PIBD 2001, n°721-II-85