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

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.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Patents & innovation

Advising on life sciences regulation

Sectors

Manufacturing & industrials

Automotive & mobility

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CV

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2022 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2019 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2022 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2019 Associate, Taylor Wessing

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

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.