Isabelle Schaller

Managing Associate, Attorney-at-law
Düsseldorf

Isabelle Schaller

Isabelle is an attorney-at-law since 2014 and a member of EIP's Litigation team in the Düsseldorf office. She advises and represents national and international clients in all areas of intellectual property law. Her focus is on advising and representing clients in cross-border patent infringement proceedings in various technical fields, especially telecommunications, at all relevant patent infringement courts in Germany.

She joined EIP having completed a law degree at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn. During her legal clerkship she trained in the legal department of a leading trading and travel company. She speaks English fluently. Isabelle is a member of GRUR, a German IP association and VPP (Association of Intellectual Property Experts).

Isabelle is well placed to advise clients on the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) - see further details at EIP Amar, our alliance created to support clients in any litigation before the UPC.

Recent work

  • Acting for Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a.r.l. v LG, Huawei and ZTE regarding three SEPs in the field of telecommunications
  • Acting for Unwired Planet International Limited (second chair in Germany) v Google, Samsung, Huawei, HTC and LG regarding six patents covering Android, 2G, 3G and LTE technologies (link)
  • Acting for Good Technology in a major international litigation (second chair in Germany) against two competitors

Specialities

Education and qualifications

  • 2011 — 2013
    Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court Cologne
  • 2005 — 2011
    Law studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn

Career history

  • February 2014 — present
    Attorney-at-law, EIP

Languages spoken

  • German
  • English

Speaking engagements

  • January 2022
    American Bar Association Webinar, Anti-Suit Injunctions, Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions, etc, in Extraterritorial Litigation
  • September 2019
    MIP European Patent Forum, Munich 2019, Strategic considerations when planning and enforcing your international patents (link)

Additional information

Memberships: GRUR, VPP