Copyright is for losers

Quote by Banksy

Markus Sieber
M. Sc.

Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney,
Authorised representative before the UPC (European Patent Litigator)

Profil

Experience

  • Active in intellectual property since 2013
  • Professional experience in the patent department of a supplier to the automotive industry, in particular in the field of attack and defence of intellectual property rights, including proceedings before the BGH, BPatG, LG and OLG

Qualification

  • Studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ruhr University Bochum
  • Trained as a German and European patent attorney as well as a German and European trade mark and design attorney at the law firm Bals & Vogel and an international supplier to the automotive industry; studied ‘Law for Patent Attorneys’ at the Distance-Learning University of Hagen

Technical specialties

  • Mechanical engineering and related fields in the automotive sector,
  • General mechanical engineering

Legal fields

  • National and international patent application and examination procedures
  • Opposition and appeal proceedings; utility model cancellation proceedings
  • National nullity and infringement proceedings
  • Infringement opinions / drafting of workarounds
  • National designs and international designs
  • Trade mark law
  • Employee invention law

Areas of specialisation in patent law

  • German patent law
  • European patent law

Languages

  • German
  • English

Memberships

  • EPI, German Patent Attorneys' Association, VPP

Interests in

  • Cycling
  • Culinary arts