The 2025 Munich IP Forum

Upcoming Dates

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Registration

Registration for the 2025 Munich IP Forum will open in Spring 2025.

Call for Speakers

If you are interested in speaking at the 2025 Munich IP Forum, please contact us by 31 March 2025.


About

Now in its ninth year, the Munich IP Forum is a annual event that offers a distinctive blend of conference sessions and networking opportunities.

Showcasing thought leadership alongside Bavarian hospitality, the forum brings together global IP and legal CxOs, as well as leaders from innovative industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, automotive, aerospace, electronics, telecommunications, and more. Attendees gather to learn from prominent panellists, network, and exchange the latest industry insights.

When: 22 & 23 September 2025

Where: Rosewood Munich (Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße 1, 80333 Munich, Germany)

Sponsors

Our sponsors play a crucial role in supporting the Munich IP Forum. Not only do they provide essential funding to keep the event free for our attendees, but they also enhance their visibility and brand awareness within the IP and legal community.

Guarantee your conference attendance and enjoy another undoubtedly memorable Oktoberfest by sponsoring the Munich IP Forum today.

Visit our 2025 Sponsorship Opportunities page.

2025 Platinum Sponsors:

As one of Germany’s largest and best-known firms in the field of intellectual property, Maiwald’s foremost aim is to achieve the best possible solution for each client in each particular case. Maiwald employs about 260 people working out of Munich and Düsseldorf. The interdisciplinary teams work closely with each other and with foreign associates, always with an eye to the client’s particular needs, whether start-up, medium-sized firm or large corporation, across all industrial sectors. Maiwald’s team does its utmost to ensure that all IP matters are handled with competence and care, irrespective of the client’s physical location, whether in Germany, Europe or beyond. 

Founded in 1965, Charles River Associates is a leading consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and strategy expertise. Headquartered in Boston, the firm has offices internationally. We use a combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis in order to provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business problems.

We are a leading global intellectual property practice – solving our clients most important issues across IP litigation, counseling and transactions – meeting our clients where they need us most. Hogan Lovells has one of the largest patent litigation practices in the world. Our team has steered the course in some of the largest patent disputes, setting precedents before local and supranational courts, in high-profile proceedings across the globe.

  • 400+ IP lawyers and professionals

  • 40 practice awards won over the last 5 years

  • 34+ languages

  • 30 offices

  • 3 countries represented

Powell Gilbert is one of the most highly regarded European IP law firms. In addition to extensive IP litigation experience in the national courts, the firm has rapidly established itself as one of the leading firms for patent litigation before the Unified Patent Court. Powell Gilbert also has unrivalled experience in advising clients on European IP strategy and coordinating European IP litigation.

Powell Gilbert works with clients from knowledge, technology and brand-based industries – from start-ups to multinationals – across a broad range of sectors, including electronics, telecoms, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, energy technologies and consumer goods. Their experience ranges from advising on some of the commercially critical and largest telecoms and FRAND licensing disputes to acting in the most complex biotechnology patent cases.

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