Oliver Jan Jüngst is a partner in Bird & Bird's Düsseldorf office.

His general area of expertise includes German intellectual property law with a strong focus on German patent and trademark law. His specific area of expertise is the orchestration and implementation of international patent infringement litigation for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. He is, however, also experienced in other technical areas, such as mechanics and electro-techniques. He is noted in the German legal directory “Juve Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005 and 2005/2006” as a frequently recommended patent litigator.

Oliver attended law school at the University of Hamburg where he obtained his law degree (with honors) in 1995. He subsequently clerked with the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig while at the same time working as a Legal Research Assistant at the University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1995 to 1998. His interest in the United States legal system led him to complete summer law programs at Cornell University in 1995 and at the University of Wisconsin in 1998; he also earned an LL.M. with particular emphasis on US intellectual property law from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.Oliver started his career with the Wessing Rechtsanwälte law firm in 1999. He joined Bird & Bird in July 2002 to help establish Bird and Bird´s German practice, located in Düsseldorf. He is entitled to practice before all German Regional Courts as well as all German Higher Regional Courts through his admittance before the Düsseldorf Bar.

He is an active member of the German Lawyer’s Association, the German-American Lawyer’s Association and the German Intellectual Property and Copyright Association.Oliver has also written and lectured on legal topics relating primarily to patent litigation. His list of publications and lectures includes:

• Patentability Of Software-Based Inventions
  DAJV Newsletter 2000, p. 158
• Patent Law – Prior Use and Confidentiality
  DAJV-Newsletter 2001, p. 79
• Introduction to German Intellectual Property Law
  State Bar of California, September 2001, Anaheim, USA
• German Patents: Filing after Testing
  LEGAmedia, December 2001
• Non-literal Patent Infringement in Germany
  DAJV-Newsletter 2001, p. 146
• Non-literal Patent Infringement in Germany
  Patent World, February 2002, p. 21
• Novelty and Industrial Applicability in Computer Programs in Europe Finnish AIPPI Group Helsinki Symposium, March 2002, Helsinki, Finland and NIR (Nordic Intellectual Property Law Review) 2002, p. 490
• If you can see it you can sue it?
  Infringing US patents in web business
  LEGAmedia, May 2002
• Federal Supreme Court defines the scope of the right of prior use Patent World, August 2002, p. 5
• Zur Durchsetzung von Biotechnologie-Patenten
  Der Streit um Biotech-Patente
  LEGAmedia, November 2003
• Due Diligence in Drug Delivery Partnerships
  Drug Delivery Conference, December 2003, Munich, Germany
• Umsetzung der Gemeinkostenentscheidung des BGH in der Praxis
  Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GdCH), March 2004, Frankfurt, Germany
• European Mock Trial – A cross-border euro-injunction including patent, trademark and copyright issues
  Brussels IP Summit, December 2004, Brussels, Belgium
• Der Anspruch auf rechtliches Gehör im Gemeinschaftsmarkenrecht
  Mitteilungen der Deutschen Patentanwälte, 2006,
  p. 109
• § 145 PatG und die Sachdienlichkeit einer Klageerweiterung in der Berufungsinstanz
  Mitteilungen der Deutschen Patentanwälte, 2006