We are: COHAUSZ & FLORACK

We are COHAUSZ & FLORACK. Nice to meet you!

A wide array of personalities work at COHAUSZ & FLORACK. What do we all have in common? A passion for technology and a desire for good ideas. Get to know us!

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Our expertise

Position your company in a technologically and economically smart way – and secure your competitive edge! We’ll support you. We’d be delighted to advise you on all IP strategy issues. We’ll make sure that your intellectual property is used in a way that adds real business value to your company.

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Our team members are all engineers and scientists with vast expertise in a broad range of technical fields, and some have been working as researchers for many years. What they all have in common: attention to detail.

Our
attorneys & teams

A wide range of technical and scientific disciplines come together at COHAUSZ & FLORACK, which is an ideal prerequisite for successful, cross-disciplinary collaboration. All patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law are specialists in their respective fields and have comprehensive know-how in all manner of legal issues, particularly in the area of intellectual property rights. Incidentally, it is part of the firm’s tradition that we train our own young talent. Many of our attorneys have already been in our team for decades.

Partner of the law firm

28 partners, 28 experienced personalities: All partners at COHAUSZ & FLORACK will do what it takes to protect intellectual property rights and will support you in establishing your brand and innovation strategy.

Patent attorneys

Our currently 30 patent attorneys feel more than confident in all relevant specialist areas: from mechanical engineering or electrical and process engineering to physics, chemistry, pharmaceutics, and biochemistry. And in our firm, interdisciplinary cooperation is a matter of course.

Attorneys-at-law

COHAUSZ & FLORACK currently has five attorneys who deal exclusively with all issues relating to industrial property rights and will be at your side to advise and assist you. You can rely on a strong team with strong expertise!

Our ideas

What’s happening in the world of innovation? What developments is the COHAUSZ & FLORACK team involved with? And which rulings will influence the legal practice of tomorrow? We’ll keep you informed!

Our podcasts

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Our judgments

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Our awards

Chambers Global 2026

Intellectual Property: Patent Attorneys: Contentious
Global Guide 2026: Germany: Band 1
Special mentioned: Dr. Natalie Kirchhofer (Band 1) and Dr. Christoph Walke (Band 2)

Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
Global Guide 2026 : Germany: Band 3

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Managing IP Awards EMEA 2026

For Germany, COHAUSZ & FLORACK has been shortlisted under “Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms” in two categories: Patent Disputes and UPC Firm of the Year, and is also listed in the category Patent Prosecution.

At the European level, COHAUSZ & FLORACK has been shortlisted as Europe Patent Disputes Firm of the Year (Patent & Trademark Attorney Firms).

Gottfried Schüll is listed for Germany in the category Practitioner of the Year.

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WTR 1000 2026

Cohausz & Florack melds deep technical insight and legal acumen to safeguard, enforce and commercialise trademarks.

Special mentioned: Ulrike Alice Ulrich, Rebekka Schiffer

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JUVE Patent UPC Ranking 2026

From the start, Cohausz & Florack positioned itself among the most active patent attorney firms at the UPC with established litigators across all technical fields. The Düsseldorf-based outfit continues to pursue its proven model of cooperating with external law firms, with which it maintains long-established contacts. The firm continues to attract praise, with one in-house counsel highlighting it as an “absolute top-team”. (…)

Special mentioned:Dr. Christoph Walke und Lars Grannemann

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