Thomas Dreiser is chief IP litigation counsel (EMEA) at Huawei. Thomas is a German qualified lawyer and working for Huawei in Munich. He is responsible for Huawei’s EMEA patent litigation and licensing projects. His focus is on standard essential patents in the telecommunications sector and FRAND-related issues. Before joining Huawei, Thomas worked as an external attorney specialising in patent litigation, IP and IT law, and he, inter alia, represented a company in one of the largest German SEP litigation campaigns in the telecommunications sector in recent years. He holds law degrees from the Universities of Munich, Duesseldorf, and Jena, and he has more than 15 years of professional experience in the field of IP and patent law. Thomas also teaches IP law at the University of Weimar.