Tobias Pichlmaier started as a judge at the District Court in Munich (Chamber for patent litigation) in 2000. From 2001 to 2004 he worked in the copyright department of the Federal Ministry of Justice in Berlin. In 2004 he was public prosecutor at the public prosecutor’s office in Munich. After another stage as judge at the District Court in Munich from 2005 to 2012 (intellectual property rights, especially patent litigation), he served as judge at the Higher Regional Court in Munich from 2012 to 2016. From 2016 until January 2022 Tobias Pichlmaier was Presiding Judge of a patent litigation chamber at the District Court in Munich, since February 2022 he presided the chamber for antitrust law. In June 2023, he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Munich Higher Regional Court. At the same time, he also served as legally qualified judge at the Local Division Munich of the Unified Patent Court. Since 2025, he is a full-time judge at the UPC. Tobias Pichlmaier is author of various publications (patent law, copyright law, law of trade secrets) and lecturer in Germany and abroad.