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Dr. Thorsten Vormann
Dr. Thorsten Vormann

Dr. Thorsten Vormann

Partner
Frankfurt
+49.69.945.196.420
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Thorsten Vormann is a partner at K&L Gates and has extensive experience in the protection and enforcement of all forms of intellectual property rights, with a focus on infringement suits in the area of patent litigation.

He also advises on non-contentious IP matters, particularly in the areas of R&D projects, licensing, and distribution agreements. He assists clients with respect to a lot of complex technologies, particularly in the automobile industry, medical, electronic, telecommunications, and computer hardware and software sectors.

He is recognized as a leading practitioner in legal directories such as JUVE Handbuch, Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, and Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt since 2014. In Managing IP 2022 and 2025, Thorsten Vormann is listed as an "IP Star" for Patents.

Thorsten joined K&L Gates in May 2015 from a Frankfurt-based international law firm and its predecessor law firm, where he worked for 23 years (18 years as a partner), and headed the German IP and trademark department since 2006.

He was admitted as a lawyer in Germany in 1992.

  • GRUR (Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V.)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)
  • European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)

Thorsten regularly delivers speeches on legal topics, including:

  • “Comparing and Contrasting European and US Patent Litigation”, G. Summerfield und T. Vormann, Association of European Science and Technology Professionals (ASTP), 9 February 2021
  • “Patent Litigation in Germany”, T. Vormann, Baxter IP-Summit, 13 May 2020
  • “Der Geist ist aus der Falsche - die unterschätzten Gefahren der Äquivalenz”, Vormann/Schubert, dfv Mediengruppe, 29 November 2017
  • “Comparing US and EU Trade Secret Laws”, Ankenbrand/Vormann, Trans-Atlantic Business Council, 22 June 2016
  • "EU Trade Mark Law Reform”, Armingaud/Artinian/Feller/Gilkrist/Kainer/Tulodziecki/Vormann/Zialkowski; K&L Gates Webinar, 16 November 2015
  • “The protection of know-how provided by Civil Law,” WisteV-Wistra Annual Meeting, Frankfurt, January 2014
  • “The European Patent with Unitary Effect,” European Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, November 2013
  • “Copyright issues deriving from the use of social media,” Summit of the Real Estate Industry (Juristischer Jahresgipfel für die Immobilienwirtschaft), Frankfurt, May 2013
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Thorsten regularly publishes on industrial property rights, including:

  • Einfacher und billiger: das neue EU Patent, Hrsg. Ingo Woelk, Arnold AG Corporate (Simpler and Cheaper: the New EU Patent, ed. Ingo Woelk, Arnold AG Corporate Publishing), December 2015 
  • Das EU-Patent kommt endlich? Publisher: C. Milbradt, Chapter in FAZ. Innovationshandbuch 2014
  • “The European Commission’s Report on the Inquiry into the Pharmaceutical Sector: A Critical Analysis from a Patent and Antitrust Law Perspective,” Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, January 2010
  • Handbook of Pharmaceutical Law, a German-language book, C.H.BECK, 2010
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