Award  |  12/05/2016

Filipe Fischmann receives Deutscher Studienpreis 2016

Filipe Fischmann, until October 2016 a Senior Research Fellow at the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, has received the Deutscher Studienpreis 2016, the coveted prize awarded each year by the Körber Foundation, for his dissertation “Reverse Payments als Mittel zur Beilegung von Patentstreitigkeiten – Ein Verstoß gegen das Kartellrecht?”(Reverse Payments as a Means to Settle Patent Disputes – A Breach of Competition Law?).

Filipe Fischmann (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), Edelgard Bulmahn (Bundestag Vice-President). Photo: Körber Foundation / David Ausserhofer

The prize is awarded annually under the auspices of the President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert for the most important dissertation of the year in each of three areas: Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences and Technology. The prize recognizes excellent dissertations that are also of great current relevance to society.


In the absence of Norbert Lammert, legal scholar Dr. Fischmann was awarded the prize by Vice-President of the Bundestag Edelgard Bulmahn on 8 November 2016 at the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building in Berlin.