In the newly published edition of “The Legal 500 Germany” (2018, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is listed in three areas as “Top Tier Firm”: “Trade Mark & Competition Law”, “Patent Law: Registrations and Administrative Proceedings”, and in “Media: Copyright Disputes”. The firm is also recommended in the fields of “Patent law: Dispute Resolution” and “Media: Entertainment”. In the editorial section, Legal 500 this year recommends ten lawyers from BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT:

Amongst others Dr. C.-R. Haarmann, Dr. Ch. Meyer, Dr. M. Wirtz, P. J. Henrichs, Dr. R. Böckenholt and S. Freund (all Trade Mark and Competition Law); Dr. K. Seranski (Patent Law: Registrations), Dr. D. Kretschmann, Dr. M. Rüberg (both Patent Law – Dispute Resolution). Dr. R. Böckenholt is also given special mention as “Name of the Next Generation”.

“Boehmert & Boehmert also continues to register one of the highest numbers of patents in Germany and offers ‘precise and absolutely reliable advice’, Legal 500 states. The broad range of technical areas as well as the strategic advice on patent portfolios in the fields of electro-technology and physics, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and chemistry is also stressed.

For Trade Mark & Competition Law, the manual states: “The ‘exceptionally high quality of advice’ in Trade Mark & Competition Law is not only based on ‘innovative thinking’ and the ‘exceptional strategic advice’ of the teams, but also on ‘the rapid response time and the firm’s very good reachability’“. The entire assessment can be seen here.