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Tobias Baus, LL.M., Dipl.-Ing.
Tobias Baus, LL.M., Dipl.-Ing.

Tobias Baus, LL.M., Dipl.-Ing.

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Tobias advises on patent law and other intellectual property matters with a technical background.

He specialises in representing clients in national and international patent litigation in the fields of engineering, IT life sciences and standard essential patents (SEPs). As an attorney-at-law, UPC representative and qualified engineer, Tobias Baus assists clients in both legal and technical matters. Licence and R&D agreements as well as trade secret protection are further focal points of his work.  

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CV

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2022 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich
2016 – 2018 Legal and technical expert, Vossius & Partner
2013 – 2015 Product Manager, Jungheinrich AG
2021 LL.M. in Intellectual Property, University of Turin / World Intellectual Property Office, Geneva (WIPO)
2019 Second state examination, Munich
2017 – 2019 Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court Munich
2017 First state examination, Munich
2011 – 2016 Law school, LMU Munich
2007 – 2012 Diploma, mechanical engineering, Technical University of Munich

Career

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2022 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2019 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich
2016 – 2018 Legal and technical expert, Vossius & Partner
2013 – 2015 Product Manager, Jungheinrich AG

Education

2021 LL.M. in Intellectual Property, University of Turin / World Intellectual Property Office, Geneva (WIPO)
2019 Second state examination, Munich
2017 – 2019 Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court Munich
2017 First state examination, Munich
2011 – 2016 Law school, LMU Munich
2007 – 2012 Diploma, mechanical engineering, Technical University of Munich

Publications

Early IP Strategy for Life Sciences Start-Ups Pays off, published in: Lexology sowie TW Insights, 2024, co-authored with A. Lunze.

Smartifizierung und das große Tauziehen um Geld für Patente, Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft, 2024, co-authored with T. Pattloch.

Kommunikationstechnik: EU-Parlament stimmt für Einschränkungen für Patentverwerter, energie.de, 2024, co-authored with T. Pattloch.

M. Borghi et al., Trade Secret Litigation Trends in the EU in: IPR Enforcement Case-Law Collection, EUIPO / Turin University, 2023, contribution of German parts.

IP as key success factor for start-ups and academic spin-offs, published in: Lexology sowie TW Insights, 2023, co-authored with S. Greifeneder, N. von Woedtke and P. Bergjans.

The Unified Patent Court: six months of success. Published in: Lexology sowie TW Insights, 2023, co-authored with P. England.

Should I file an infringement action with the UPC or stick to national courts? Published in: Lexology and TW Insights, 2023, co-authored with M. Washbrook, D. Mulder.

P. England et al,. A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law, 2nd Edition, Bloomsbury, 2022, chapter contribution.

The challenging timeline of patent infringement proceedings before the Unified Patent Court Published in: Lexology and TW Insights, 2022, co-authored with A. Ebbutt, C. Garnitsch.

Carve-out or blocking torpedo? A crucial question to be decided by the Unified Patent Court Published in: Lexology and TW Insights, 2022, co-authored with  P. England, W. Maas.

The Importance of IP Rights for Technological Academic Spin-Offs in: SSRN, 2021, co-authored with A. Zhangabylov, K. Danko, T. Baus.

Protectability and enforceability of AI-generated inventions, in: "Designing Tomorrow’s Legal, ”, Liquid Legal Institutes, Springer, 2020, co-authored with J. P. Rektorschek, T. Baus.

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Why 2024 was pivotal for SEPs in Europe and what to expect from 2025

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Munich’s New Rules for the FRAND Defense: Security Deposit as Safe Harbor for SEP Implementers?

18 November 2024
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