Armin Giesen is a German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwalt) and Associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Munich office. He joined the firm in 2019. His practice focuses on national and cross-border patent disputes.
Armin represents clients before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the most important German patent infringement courts (Hamburg, Mannheim/Karlsruhe and Munich) at first instance and on appeal, in nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Court of Justice, and in EPO opposition proceedings before the Opposition Divisions and the Technical Boards of Appeal.
His expertise covers all aspects of complex patent disputes across a broad range of technologies. In particular, he has conducted proceedings in the fields of single molecule analysis, (mobile) telecommunications, semiconductor technology and general chip design, software applications and automotive. He is currently heavily involved in the representation of a renowned medical device manufacturer on both the plaintiff and defendant side and represents a German OEM manufacturer.
After studying law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (2015) and completing his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich (2017), Armin first worked as a research assistant at Quinn Emanuel and then completed a Master's degree at the University of Edinburgh with a focus on Intellectual Property Law (2018/2019).
He is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).
- University of Edinburgh
(LL.M., Intellectual Property Law, 2019) - Higher Regional Court of Munich
(Second State Examination, 2017) - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
(First State Examination, 2015) - SAE Institute, Munich / Middlesex University, London
(B.A., Music Marketing, Honors, 2009)
- The German Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer München)
- German
- English