Emphasis

Drafting of patent and utility model applications, in particular in the fields of internal combustion engines, specifically large diesel engines, power train, drive systems, automotive engineering, car body construction, special tools and machines, medical technology systems and devices, electrical and hydraulic systems, physics, physical chemistry.

Domestic and foreign prosecution of patent applications.

Opposition Proceedings as well as Appeal Proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office.

Nullity Proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Court of Justice.
Expert opinions.

Domestic and foreign enforcement and litigation of IP.

References

Named in the rating of the business magazine WirtschaftsWoche in the list of “Top Lawyers 2019” for Patent Law.

Opposition Proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office for large and medium sized enterprises in the fields of engine technology, medical technology systems and devices, and special tools and machines.

Appeal Proceedings before the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office for large and medium sized enterprises in the fields of engine technology, medical technology systems and devices, and special tools and machines.

Patent Infringement Proceedings for a medium sized enterprise in the field of special tools and machines.

Nullity Proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court and the German Federal Court of Justice for a medium sized enterprise in the field of special tools and machines.

Education

Mattias Kordel studied chemistry at the University of Mainz and – with emphasis on physical chemistry and physics – at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He wrote his Diploma thesis at the Institute for Nanotechnology at the Research Center Karlsruhe on the topic of photodissociation spectroscopy. He then worked on the topic of fluorescence measurements of trapped molecular ions in gas phase at the Institute for Nanotechnology (Research Center Karlsruhe) and achieved his Doctorate at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in the year 2007.

From 2007 to 2010 he trained in the field of Intellectual Property Law at Gleiss & Große, spending time at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and the District Court of Mannheim.

Since 2007 Mattias Kordel is concerned with the preparation of patent applications, with opposition and inter partes proceedings as well as with expert opinions, infringement analyses, validity analyses, and due-diligence proceedings. The emphasis is mainly in the field of internal combustion engines, in particular large diesel engines, power train, drive systems, automotive engineering, car body construction, physics/mechanics, physical chemistry, special tools and machines, electrical and hydraulic systems, medical technology systems and devices. In addition, he is familiar with the application and prosecution of designs and trademarks, national and international. Mattias Kordel attends clients from German and international, large and medium-sized enterprises as well as from university and commercial research institutes and start-up enterprises.

Mattias Kordel was admitted as a German Patent Attorney in 2010. He is admitted at the German Patent- and Trademark Office (DPMA), the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the OHIM. He is also admitted at the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) in connection with nullity actions, proceedings concerning supplementary protection certificates and compulsory licenses. He is also admitted at the Bundessortenamt (Federal Bureau for Protection and National Listing of New Plant Varieties) concerning the protection of new plant varieties.

Teaching Activities and Lectures

I. Teaching Activites

Mattias Kordel is Appointed Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen.

II. Lectures

Kordel, “Overview of the EU Trade Mark and Community Design System in the EU”, IP Counsel Forum: Global IP and Rights Enforcement, Shenzhen (China), 25 November 2016

Memberships

He is member of the German Patent Attorneys’ Association, the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI), the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI), the Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright law (GRUR), the German Association of Patent Engineers and Patent Assessors (VPP), and the Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys. He is also member of the German Physical Society (DPG).

Further Information

Mattias Kordel speaks German and English.