Title: Partner
Employment experience:
Marco Stief is an experienced lawyer skilled in handling domestic and international patent infringement cases, border seizure lawsuits, and conflicts arising from technology related contracts. He provides consulting services on technology intellectual property, technology transfer, and various contract affairs for multiple enterprises, and also serves as a consultant in the fields of design rights, competition law, employee inventions, and trade secrets.
Marco has been the head of Maiwald's legal department since 2017. He teaches intellectual property related courses at the University of Dresden and is also an assistant lecturer in patents and drug contracts at the University of Marburg.
Marco Stief has been selected as one of the top 300 "World Intellectual Property Strategists" and one of the top 1000 "World Patent Professionals" by Intellectual Property Management magazine for many consecutive years. WirtschaftsWoche magazine listed Marco as one of the top 10 patent litigation lawyers in Economy of Germany, and praised him as one of the best patent litigation lawyers in Germany; Legal 500 magazine evaluates him as "pragmatic, agile, results oriented, and consistently meets the highest professional standards". In 2018, Marco Stief was selected as one of the six best patent litigation lawyers in Who is Who Legal, and was recently recommended by the German newspaper "Business Daily" as one of the top litigation lawyers in the field of pharmaceutical and healthcare law in Germany.
Industry:
Patents and utility models; Supplementary protection certificate; Competition and Anti Monopoly Law; Compliance; Employee Invention Act; Pharmaceutical Law
Language: English, German
Typical case:
He has authored multiple professional works, co authored the "Handbook of Patent Law" with others, published German and English versions, and also served as an editor for the "Drug Contract Handbook" and the European "Supplementary Protection Certificate Handbook". Received scholarships from Fulbright International, Rotary International, and the German Academic Exchange Center (DAAD) for outstanding academic achievements. Graduated from the prestigious university of Chicago with the best grades in the class in 2001. And obtained a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.).
Domestic agency: Beijing Liushen Law Firm
Contact number: 010-62681616-1091