Groß, Michael

Attorney-at-Law (admitted in Germany); Of Counsel, Müller Schupfner & Partner, Munich; Head of Team Licenses, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich

• License Agreements (Patents, Know How, Software Copyrights, Trade Marks experience of >19,000 license agreements since 1988)
• Research & Development Agreements
• Antitrust law with the focus on IP & IT law
• Arbitration & Mediation, Conflict Management
• legal study for the European Commission 1995: Block Exemption Regulation No 240/96(EC)Technology Transfer Agreements

• 1980 First Legal State Exam, University of Münster
• 1984 Second Legal State Exam , Düsseldorf
• 1984-1987 Attorney-of-Law, Münster
• 1987 Dr. iur., University of Bielefeld
• Since 1988 Head of Team Licenses, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich
• Since 1988 Attorney-of-Law, Munich
• April 1997-September 2003 Andersen Legal (EY Law-Luther Menold), Munich
• October 2003 - January 2019, BIRD&BIRD, Munich
• since February 2019 Müller Schupfner & Partner, Munich

19 arbitrations: 12x chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, 7x as Inhouse Counsel; 4x expert opinion; 31 mediations, 25x single mediator, 6x as Inhouse Counsel; subject-matter of the arbitral proceedings/mediations: Intellectual Property Rights (license agreements, patent-,soft-/hardware purchase agreements, research & development agreements; e.g.:liability for defects, default in payment, personal disputes;patent infringement proceedings, company law; amounts in dispute : up to 80 Mio. US$

• Groß, The License Agreement, 12th edition, Frankfurt a.M. 2020
• Groß/Strunk,License Fees,5th edition, Frankfurt a.M. 2020
• Groß, The Mediator Agreement, HMV 109, Frankfurt a.M. 2012
• IP-/IT-Mediation, 3rd edition, Munich 2018
• The Mediator Agreement HMV 109, 2nd edition Frankfurt a.M. 2016
• www.IP-/IT-Mediation.de

• German
• English

• DIS
• EUCON