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Areas of practice: |
Prosecuting and litigating patents in the areas of electrical and mechanical engineering, software and physics.
Opposition and appeal proceedings, opinions, patent portfolio management, licensing of intellectual property rights.
Advising clients on all areas of intellectual property. Collaboration agreements, confidentiality agreements, software copyright protection |
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Career & experience: |
Studies of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
Admitted as European Patent Attorney since 1999. German Patent Assessor since 2000, including training at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, and the District Court of Munich.
Patent Attorney in the IT industry since 1994:
Patent Counsel, Siemens AG, Automotive Electronics division,
Senior Patent Attorney, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory,
Patent Portfolio Manager for IBM Corporation,
Head of the IP Department, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, and IP Counsel, IBM Research, Europe
Patent Attorney with E. Blum & Co. AG since the end of 2009 |
