Fields of Activity

  • Patent grant proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office
  • Opposition proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office
  • Nullity proceedings and utility model cancellation proceedings before the Federal Patent Court
  • Infringement proceedings before civil courts
  • Licensing agreements, opinions in patent infringement cases
  • Analyses of prior art and freedom-to-operate searches
  • Employee Inventions Act
  • Trademark registration and opposition proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
  • Establishment and enforcement of international trademark portfolios

Education

  • Studied Mechanical Engineering, specializing in Aerospace Engineering, at Technical University of Munich (diploma 1992)
  • Research assistant at the Chair of Flight Mechanics at Technical University of Munich
  • Has been working in intellectual property since 1993

Memberships and other activities

  • German Chamber of Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer)
  • epi (European Patent Institute)
  • Bavarian Association of Patent Attorneys
  • VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure - Association of German Engineers)
  • MARQUES
  • Lecturer on intellectual property law 

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French