Jan Phillip Rektorschek

Jan Phillip Rektorschek has been working in the field of patent litigation for national and international companies. He advices clients from all technical fields, particularly from the IT/electronics, pharmaceuticals/life sciences, and mechanics/automation sectors, before all German courts and before the Unified Patent Court (UPC). He has also extensive experience in handling SEP and FRAND matters. Another focus of his work is advising clients in the fields of robotics, Industry 4.0, IoT, and artificial intelligence (AI). Phillip is also involved in complex disputes in trade secrets, IP‒related arbitration proceedings and drafts drafting and negotiats license and R&D agreements. He is also on the list of arbitrators for IP disputes at the Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration (SCIA). Phillip is a specialist lawyer for intellectual property law, regularly gives lectures on intellectual property law, publishes articles on current IP topics, and is co‒author of several handbooks on IP litigation and IP‒related aspects of AI and robotics. He is Vice President of the Software and Integrated Circuit Commission, a member of the board of the German group of UNION‒IP, and a member of the German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR) and the Licensing Executives Society (LES).