Felix T. Rödiger is an experienced specialist in all technical IP matters with a focus on patent litigation both nationally and multi-nationally.

He is known for handling technically complex matters. His major player clients come from the pharmaceutical, medical devices, automotive and electronics sectors.

Felix was and is involved in several major patent infringement battles with parallel litigations throughout Europe and the US.

Felix successfully handled the German litigation in 2007 in which the FRAND defence for the first time ever worldwide was applied and confirmed by court.

Having been selected and trained by Wolfgang von Meibom on a broad basis he was promoted to become partner in 1999 and is a founding partner of Bird & Bird’s first German office, opened in Düsseldorf in 2002. Today Felix is Member of the Global Board of Bird & Bird as a Non-Executive Director.

He regularly holds lectures on cross-border patent litigation issues at international conferences (e.g. at the IBA meetings in Cancun, San Francisco and Auckland, at the Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference in Washington D.C. and at the LESI Meetings in Amsterdam and Copenhagen).

He is a permanent lecturer at the IP Summer Law School in Cambridge on patent infringement issues.

He is co-author of a commentary on EC Trade Mark Regulation.

The main German legal directory "JUVE German Commercial Law Firms" named him a "frequently recommended" patent litigator.

Felix is Winner of the 2007 WorldLeader IP Awards for "Patent Excellence".