Felix T. Rödiger is an experienced specialist in all technical IP matters with a focus on patent litigation both nationally and multi-nationally. Felix Rödiger is a partner in Bird&Bird’s International Intellectual Property Group, based in Düsseldorf. He is founding partner of Bird&Bird’s first German office, opened in Düsseldorf in 2002. He is known for handling technically complex matters. His major player clients come from the electronics, automotive, food, pharmaceutical and medical devices sectors. Felix was and is involved in several major patent infringement battles with parallel litigations throughout Europe and the US. He successfully handled the German Siemens / Amoi litigation in 2007 in which the FRAND defence for the first time ever worldwide was applied and confirmed by court. Also his patent infringement case Philips / Acer was in 2015 the first case before the Mannheim court that was stayed due to the FRAND defense raised. Felix has handled several large patent related arbitrations as Party’s counsel under the ICC, Swiss and DIS rules. Especially the Hoechst / Genentech case has gained international attention because the Paris Court of Appeal had submitted a request for a preliminary ruling to the CJEU: http://www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/global/sanofi Felix regularly lectures on cross-border patent litigation issues at international conferences (including at the IBA meetings in Cancun, San Francisco, Auckland and Vancouver, at the Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Washington D.C. and at the LESI Meetings in Amsterdam and Copenhagen). Felix is a permanent lecturer since 13 years at the IP Summer Law School in Cambridge on patent infringement issues. He is co-author of a commentary on EC Trade Mark Regulation.