Tim Smentkowski, LL.M.
Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Germany)
Bar-Certified Specialist Attorney for Intellectual Property Law, Counsel
Tim Smentkowski is Counsel with our firm. He specialises in intellectual property law and, in particular, patent and trademark law.
Managing Intellectual Property lists Tim Smentkowski as “Rising Star” in its 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. IP Stars Rankings. Legal 500 mentions Tim Smentkowski as “Rising Star” for patent law in its 2022 ranking. Juve patent names Tim Smentkowski “One to Watch in German patent litigation 2022”.
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Born 1987 in Düsseldorf
Law Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf with special focus on “enterprises and markets” and at the University of Hull, England
Trainee Lawyer (Referendar) at the Regional Court of Düsseldorf, the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in New Delhi, India, Glade Michel Wirtz in Düsseldorf (Competition Law) and Siemens AG
Professional experience: 2015 – 2018 Research Associate with rospatt osten pross Intellectual Property Rechtsanwälte; since 2018 Attorney-at-Law with ARNOLD RUESS; since 2021 Bar-Certified Specialist Attorney for Intellectual Property Law
Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property Law, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Publications
Publications
FRAND-Einwand: Beiderseitiges Pflichtenprogramm der Parteien, Anmerkung zu LG München I, Urteil vom 17.2.2023 – 21 O 4140/21 und Urteil vom 19.4.2023 – 21 O 1890/22, in: GRUR Patent 2023, 172 (together with Dr. Lisa Rieth)
Verfassungsbeschwerden gegen Rechtsschutzsystem des Europäischen Patentamts verworfen, comment on German Constitutional Court, decision of 8.11.2022 – 2 BvR 2480/10 et. al., in: GRUR-Prax 2023, 234
COVID-19: The impact on patent and the courts in Germany (together with Prof. Dr. Peter Ruess), online on 13. April 2020 at https://www.ipstars.com/NewsAndAnalysis/COVID-19-The-impact-on-patent-and-the-courts-in-Germany/Index/5276
Presentations
Presentations
Young EPLAW Congress, Brüssel 25.04.2022: Confidentiality in court proceedings (together with Yngve Øyehaug Opsvik, Marie-Ange Pozzo di Borgo, Jonathan Solomon and Pietro Dettori)
DeepIn research network, Webinar 28.02.2023: Contribution to the Debate on SEPs: SEP case law in Germany (panel discussion together with Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht, Dr. Matthias Zigann, Elisabeth Opie and Igor Nikolic)
Languages
Languages
German
English