Dr. Alexandra Anishchanka
Degree in physics

Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney


Profile

Experience

  • Active in industrial property protection since 2009

Qualification

  • Physics studies at the Belarusian State University (Minsk) with a focus on laser physics and spectroscopy
  • Doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum in theoretical physics with a focus on mestoscopic physics, the interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
  • Scholarship holder of Research Training Group 384 "Nanoelectronic, Micromechanical and Microoptical Systems: Analysis and Synthesis by Ion, Electrons and Photons"
  • Alumni of the Collaborative Research Centre "SFB 491 Magnetic Heterolayers: Spin Structure and Spin Transport"
  • Trained as a patent attorney at the patent law firm Bals & Vogel since June 2011, the University of Hagen, the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court.
  • Licensed as a German patent attorney in September 2014 and as a European trademark and design lawyer in October 2014, licensed as a European patent attorney since August 2016

Technical specialties

  • Physics, optics, spectroscopy, classical mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, quantum physics, superconductivity, medical physics
  • Automotive technology
  • Drive technology
  • Motor technology, generator technology
  • Battery technology, fuel cell technology
  • Electrical engineering
  • IOT, AI and machine learning

Legal fields

  • National and international patent application and examination procedures
  • Opposition and appeal proceedings
  • National annulment and infringement proceedings
  • National utility models
  • National, European and international brands
  • National, European and international designs
  • Freedom-to-operate analysis
  • Injury analysis
  • Strategic Consulting Intellectual Property

Patent law activities

  • German patent law
  • European patent law
  • International patent system

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • Russian

Courses/Publications/Lectures

  • Internal training on German patent law

Memberships

German Patent Attorneys' Association, Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys, EPI, FICPI, Member of Examination Committee III of the European Patent Office for the European Qualifying Examination (EQE)

 Interests

  • Endurance sports (cycling, swimming)
  • Travel, cooking
  • Opera, Ballet, Theatre, Art, Literature, Cinema
  • Fashion, Design