Profile

Experience

• Active in industrial property since 2004
• Extensive professional experience in the writing and enactment of industrial property rights as well as in the field of Freedom to Operate (FTO) analyses
• Lecturer in "German Patent Law" at the Amberg-Weiden University of Technology in the patent engineering course

Qualification

• Studied "Patent Engineering" at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the Amberg-Weiden University of Technology. Diploma thesis in the development department of Bentley Motors Limited in the field of alternative drive technologies in the automotive industry
• Studied at the Ecole d'ingénieurs, Louis de Broglie in Rennes at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Further stays abroad at Morgan & Finnegan LLP in New York City and the French Patent and Trademark Office (INPI)
• Studied "Intellectual Property" and "Law for Patent Attorneys" at the Fern University in Hagen

Technical specialties

• Mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, process engineering
• Aerospace technology
• Tool technology
• Medical technology
• IOT, AI and machine learning

Legal fields

• National and international registration and examination procedures
• Opposition and appeal proceedings
• National annulment and infringement proceedings
• National and international designs
• Freedom to Operate analysis
• Injury analysis
• Strategic advice in industrial property

Patent law activities

• European patent law
• German Patent Law

Languages

• German
• English
• French

Courses/Publications/Lectures

• Lecturer in the course "Patent Engineering" at the East Bavarian Technical University Amberg-Weiden

Memberships

German Patent Attorneys' Association, EPI, CIS-Amberg Triathlon, Round Table 235 Amberg-Sulzbach

Interests

• Endurance sports
• Film and photography
• Consumer electronics