Michael Platzöder

Partner, Wallinger Ricker Schlotter Tostmann

Michael Platzöder is a German and European patent attorney who represents international and national clients in all areas of patent law, in particular in patent prosecution and litigation, with a focus on information technology/telecommunications, electronics, security solutions, semiconductor technology and physics. He has litigated multiple patent suits brought by non-practising entities on the plaintiff’s side, the defendant’s side and both as outside counsel and as a long-time head of intellectual property and standards in the IT/telecommunications and semiconductor industries. He also provides comprehensive consulting in the area of strategic IP management, such as innovation and patent portfolio management, IP exploitation, risk management, internal IP processes and structures, as well as IP transactions and contracts and alternative dispute resolution.