Bernhard Thum is managing partner of Thum & Partners. He is a medical device engineer and inventor, a German and European Patent Attorney and he holds a Master's degree in European Intellectual Property Law. He has experience representing clients in all types of proceedings before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and is currently involved in around 20 pending cases. He has also represented clients before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, and the German local and higher regional courts, as well as the Federal Court of Justice. He has furthermore contributed in several national and international court proceedings outside Germany, and supports and advises clients in multinational patent infringement proceedings. Who's Who Legal recommends Bernhard Thum as a Global Leader, according to IAM he is a leading independent professional. JUVE Patent has also mentioned him as one of the German patent attorneys with a technical speciality and recently included him in the list of recommended UPC litigators as the only patent attorney in this list. Handelsblatt, in cooperation with Best Lawyers, regularly lists him as one of Germany's "Best Lawyers".