25/09/2026
Infineon's Chief IP Counsel manages more than 12,000 patent families, litigation ready patents as he puts it.
In this episode of IP Fridays I sit down with Peter Berg, who also serves as President of the VPP, Germany's association for in house patent professionals. We start with something most companies never have to test: Infineon recently obtained an ex parte preliminary injunction in a patent case at a German trade show, without the other side having filed a protective letter. That single case opens into a much bigger conversation about when national courts still beat the UPC, and when they do not.
From there Peter walks me through what it actually takes to run litigation in Germany, the US and China at the same time, and why rotating patent attorneys through litigation teams quietly improves the quality of every patent filed afterward. We get into the Marvell acquisition, a 2.5 billion dollar deal, and what genuinely changes inside an IP department the day after signing. He also tells me why patents Cypress sold to a licensing entity years before Infineon bought the company are still worth tracking today.
There is more. Infineon became the first company to reach a CC EAL6 certification in post quantum cryptography, and Peter has a clear view on whether that field is headed toward the kind of patent clusters we saw in cellular standards. He also makes the case, bluntly, for why Germany's Employee Invention Act should be scrapped, and breaks down the three layers of AI his team actually uses in daily patent work, not the version companies put in press releases.
If you work in IP strategy at a company with real litigation exposure, this conversation will change how you think about managing your own portfolio. Listen to the full episode here https://www.ipfridays.com/
