Dr. Friedrich Emmerling

Due to his technical and professional background, Fritz has extensive knowledge and experience in the fields of mobile communications, video and audio coding, power engineering, semiconductor technology, IT/software and optics.

He leads one of the most active patent litigation teams for patent litigation cases before German courts and the EPO, especially when it comes to mobile communication and electrical engineering patents. Especially in the field of standard essential patents, his team enjoys an excellent reputation and has established itself as one of the most experienced in the market.

Of particular importance are his representation in the Huawei vs. ZTE case (“patent dispute of the decade”, juve.de), in the Unwired Planet vs. Huawei case (“Avoiding the Wild West”, juve-patent.com), or in the case brought by Intellectual Ventures against Deutsche Telekom AG, Vodafone, Telefonica, Huawei (“currently probably the largest patent infringement complex before German courts”, juve.de).

Fritz and his team have also successfully defended the interests of his clients in other technology areas, such as renewable energies. Particularly noteworthy is the SolarEdge v. Huawei case.

Before founding BDPE with his partners Dr. Karl-Ulrich Braun-Dullaeus (Uli), Heinrich Georg Pannen and Markus Kreuzberg, Friedrich worked for eight years at Bird & Bird, among others.

Prior to his work as a patent attorney, Fritz was a senior executive in the industry in the fields of software development and application technology. He studied physics and received his doctorate from the Technical University of Munich.