PENTARC, the “largest spin-off in the German patent market for 25 years” according to JUVE Patent effectively has started its operations on October 1st, 2025. PENTARC is a Munich based patent and IP boutique specializing in Patent & IP disputes, IP Licenses & Transactions, IP Strategy and IP-related Arbitration. It consists of twelve lawyers originally part of Taylor Wessing Germany’s highly successful patent group. The five founding partners are Dr. Christian Lederer (a proven litigation expertrepresenting, among others, Japanese and Korean companies and head of Taylor Wessing's patent group for over eight years until 2022), Dr. Thomas Pattloch (prior to joining PENTARC the co-head of Taylor Wessing's China practice and head of the Chinese trademark agency TAILUN in Beijing), Dr. Dietrich Kamlah (a proven expert in representing US companies and in the SEP/FRAND sector), Dr. Anja Lunze (prior to joining PENTARC the co-head of Taylor Wessing's Life Sciences & Healthcare Industry Group for four years) and Dr. Jan Phillip Rektorschek (prior to joining PENTARC a member of the Partner Council at Taylor Wessing). All founding partners are widely experienced in international and national patent litigation, including cross border and UPC proceedings. They offer commercially sound and strategic advice on IP to their clients in the German and European market. Page 2 of 2 In addition, the initial PENTARC team consists of five further salary partners: Verena Bertram, Julius Zacharias, Dr. Michael Schächinger, Dipl-Ing. Tobias Baus, LL.M. and Dr. Damian Roscher as well as senior associate Julia Fischer and associate Verena Brusius. With its dedicated experts PENTARC will be one of the largest and most powerful patent and IP teams in the German and European (UPC) market from the outset. Our team members have been responsible for more than 30 UPC proceedings so far by that being one of Europe‘s most active UPC teams, and to date continue to act for clients from the US, Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and other global regions, and in all technical fields. Under its new brand, the team continues to be one of the most experienced and busiest litigation firms in the UPC. Ongoing UPC cases handled by the founding partners of PENTARC include, among others, Samsung v. Maxell, Disney v. Adeia and Interdigital, Zentiva v. Sanofi, Wonderland v. Cybex, and Chint v. JASolar. Recently concluded UPC proceedings included representation of Verifone v. Nokia, Revolt v. MyStromer, and Abbott v. Dexcom. PENTARC will open its main office in the Herzog Max building at Karlsplatz 9, next to the Max Planck-Institute. More information can be found here. Tobias Baus will be based in Hamburg.