Markus Deck, M.C.J. (University of Texas, Austin)
Rechtsanwalt | Head of Intellectual Property, CMS Germany
Languages
- German
- English
- French
- Spanish
Markus Deck is an intellectual property expert with more than 30 years of experience and a particular focus on technology-related projects. He specialises in patent law and represents clients in litigation and non-litigious matters. He regularly advises on technology-driven transactions which often revolve around the allocation and exploitation of intellectual property. In this context, Markus’s clients also benefit from his competition, antitrust and distribution law expertise.
Markus has successfully handled more than 100 licensing, settlement and other IP agreements and on an ongoing basis, he also advises his clients on legal issues related to product piracy, trade secrets and inventions by employees. He is particularly well known for his work enforcing intellectual property rights which he does on a national as well as international level and before courts and in arbitration proceedings. His clients include multinational groups but also medium-sized companies and start-ups.
Markus has been an intellectual property partner since 2007. Prior to joining CMS, he was a partner at Linklaters and its predecessors (since 1998) where he had been a member of the firm's intellectual property group since 1989. Markus Deck is co-author of the "Münchener Anwaltshandbuch” and the De Gruyter commentary on the German Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets.
