H.-Peter Staudt, Dipl.-Ing., LL.M., has received an engineering diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. He has received the graduate/second degree, with final thesis, Master of Laws (LL.M.) at FernUniversität in Hagen. He is a German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt), a European Patent Attorney (registered representative before the European Patent Office EPO), a registered representative before the UPC of the European Union and a European Trademark and Design Attorney (registered representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office EUIPO). 

Prior to his practice as a Patent Attorney, Mr. Staudt has worked for about ten years as an engineer in the automotive industry and has been involved in the development of high-performance and race engines at BMW Motorsport GmbH, where he had been inter alia in charge as the responsible engineer for a Formula 1 team, and AUDI AG and as an independent consultant. This comparatively long period of development activity not only provides him with specific skill in the entire automotive industry, but also gives him the opportunity to have the experience of being an inventor, thus having in-depth experience of the perspective of a client in IP. 1990 he joined a Munich intellectual property law firm. In 1993 he established his own law firm in Ingolstadt. 

He represents domestic and international clients worldwide in the prosecution, defence and enforcement of intellectual property rights. His areas of expertise include also drafting and negotiating license agreements and advices on the clearance, protection and enforcement of all forms of intellectual property rights. He is an author of articles in IP journals, a frequent lecturer on IP topics before organisations in various countries and he is fluent in English. 

Mr. Staudt is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), the International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI), the Licensing Executives Society (LES) and the Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR). He is a registered representative before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and, together with an attorney at law, authorized to represent clients before all civil courts. 

Moreover, Mr. Staudt had been a Patent Attorney Examiner appointed by the German Ministry of Justice as a member of the German Patent Attorney Examination Commission.

LegalComprehensive.com has recognized Mr. Staudt in their 2018 and 2019 Top 100 Lawyers as one of the 100 best Lawyers in the world.