Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software, Telecommunications

Partner (since 1999)

Physicist by training; Patent attorney since 1998, specialized in patent litigation and prosecution; vast experience in handling patent infringement cases before the district and appeal courts, as well as nullity cases before the Federal Patent Court; actively involved in achieving a fundamental decision issued by Germany's Federal Court of Justice concerning the admissibility of post-grant amendments to claims; appointed as an arbitrator in various international arbitration proceedings

GRUR, AIPPI

studies in physics in Berlin und Paris (École Normale Supérieure);doctoral degree at the FU Berlin (1993), research in the field of magnetism and superconductors and femtosecond-spectroscopy, more than one dozen publications in referied international academic journals und multiple presentations;LL.M. (European Intellectual Property Law) at the Kurt-Haertel Institute, Fernuni Hagen