The roots of STORK BAMBERGER go back to the end of the 19th century. Thus, the firm has accompanied the history of intellectual property rights as well as their technical, economic and social developments over the past 130 years.

The first owner of the office known by name was the graduate engineer and patent attorney Camillo Resek. As an advertisement of the Chamber of Commerce from 1913 in the Lübecker Volksbote shows, he held public slide lectures to an interested audience on the subject of “Inventions, their protection and exploitation”.

At that time, the firm was located in a Gründerzeit building, the Holstenhof, in Hamburg’s Neustadt (city), which has been preserved to this day.

In 1926, the firm was taken over by the partners Koch and Dr. Pogge. After the early death of Dr. Pogge, Mr. Koch continued to run the firm together with Franz-Werner Clodius, who joined the firm about the same time. The office was now located next to the town hall in the heart of Hamburg.

From 1937 onwards, Franz-Werner Clodius ran the firm alone under the name Patentanwaltskanzlei Clodius. His clients at that time reflected the traditional economic life of the Hanseatic city. In the patent field, for example, he looked after clients from the fish processing and investment casting industries, while in the trademark field the focus was on servicing trading houses and import and export companies.

During World War II, when the building next to the town hall was destroyed by bombs, Mr. Clodius moved the office to his private house in Grubesallee in Hamburg-Rahlstedt without further ado.

In 1968, Heinz Peter Wenzel took over the firm from Franz-Werner Clodius, where he had previously completed his training as a patent attorney. The clientele expanded rapidly. In 1974, Heinz Peter Wenzel and Heinz-Dieter Kalkoff, who ran a patent attorney’s office in Witten, joined forces to form a supra-local partnership.

From 1978 until 2011, the firm was known as Wenzel & Kalkoff. As structural change progressed, the range of clients also changed. Manufacturers of electronic and electrotechnical components, companies from the IT sector, as well as orthopaedic and medical technology, suppliers of building protection products, companies in the field of environmental technology and various service providers became clients of the firm. The firm was expanded and strengthened by the addition of further partners, Ute Stork (1998) and Stephan Bamberger (2000).

In 2009, the firm moved from the premises in Grubesallee, which had become too small in the meantime, to the current firm building in Hamburg.

Since 2012, the partners Ute Stork and Stephan Bamberger have continued to run the firm as STORK BAMBERGER Patentanwälte and have expanded the range of practice areas. Jan Quellmann – who has been with the firm since 2007 – joined STORK BAMBERGER as a partner in 2017.

Together with patent attorney Theo Schubert, we are proud that a high number of our clients have been with the firm for years and decades. The continuity of advice from our patent attorneys is valued by our clients and us as an important part of our business relationship.