Bardehle Pagenberg

Intellectual Property / Patent Litigation

Attorney-at-law (Rechtsanwalt), UPC Representative, Counsel

»Translating technology into arguments is key to successful patent litigation. Developing the best arguments – straightforward, efficient, and creative – that's what drives me.«

Dr. Martin Drews is an attorney-at-law who specializes in national and cross-border patent litigation. He represents clients in complex patent infringement and nullity proceedings before the Unified Patent Court, German courts as well as in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office. His main areas of expertise are biotechnology, medical technology, and telecommunications.

Martin Drews has vast knowledge of German and European research and innovation systems, which he gained as a ministerial official at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, personal adviser to a Parliamentary State Secretary, as well as research policy officer of one of the largest parliamentary groups of the German Bundestag.

2024 - today

Counsel of the firm

2023 - today

Attorney-at-law at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG in Munich, Germany

2022 - 2023

Attorney-at-law at Hogan Lovells International LLP in Dusseldorf, Germany

2018 - 2022

Policy Advisor research and education, political group of CDU/CSU in German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany

2015 - 2018

Personal Advisor of the Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Education and research in Berlin, Germany

2012 - 2015

Ministerial official at the German Federal Ministry of Education and research in Bonn, Germany

2009 - 2012

Attorney-at-law at Hogan Lovells International LLP (former Lovells LLP) in Dusseldorf, Germany

German, English

2023

Registration as a Representative before the UPC

2009

Second State Law Examination (bar admission exam)

2006 - 2009

Legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court Cologne, Germany, including training placements with an international law firm in Cologne, Germany, and London, United Kingdom, in the field of Intellectual Property law

2005 - 2009

Dr. jur. at the University of Cologne, Germany

2005 - 2008

Research assistant at an international law firm in Cologne, Germany, in the field of Intellectual Property law

2005

First State Law Examination (degree-level exam)

2000 - 2005

Legal studies at the University of Cologne, Germany