Dr. Georg Andreas Rauh is registered as a German attorney at law and UPC Representative and partner of Vossius patent litigation group.
His professional practice is focused on advising leading national and international clients in complex patent disputes before the Unified Patent Court as well as the German infringement and nullity courts, with a specific focus on SEP/FRAND-related matters, biotech, med-tech and pharma litigation. Dr. Rauh has been lead counsel in multiple international patent disputes and thus possesses a profound expertise in international patent law as well as the coordination of multi-national patent infringement proceedings. He is also a renowned expert in anti-trust issues surrounding IP law, in particular with regard to the FRAND defense in standard essential patent cases.
Dr. Rauh studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. During his studies and at the beginning of his career, he worked for several renowned IP law firms in Munich, Madrid, Buenos Aires and California. He finished his doctoral thesis on the topic of “Indirect (Contributory) Patent Infringement in Germany, Japan and the US” (summa cum laude, faculty price of the University of Munich) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Joseph Straus at the Max-Planck-Institute of Innovation and Competition, which has been published in the institute’s famous series on Intellectual Property Law as volume 161.