GERMAN PATENT ATTORNEY*
EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY
EUROPEAN TRADEMARK AND DESIGN ATTORNEY
Main activities
Prosecuting patents and utility models, mainly in the field of general mechanical engineering, automotive technology agro-machinery technology, aircraft engines, paper machines, textile machines and structural engineering, medical technology
Oppositions, invalidations | nullity proceedings, litigations
German and international trademark law and design law
Providing opinions and advice regarding validity and infringement of IP rights
patent portfolio management and elaboration of patent strategies, employee’s invention law
Languages
English, German, French
Education and professional experience
1967-1973
Studies of aeronautical engineering at the University of Stuttgart, Degree: diploma in engineering
1973-1977
Training in British patent law at a London firm of Chartered Patent agents
1977-1980
Training for patent attorneyship in industrial companies (commercial vehicles and aircraft engines) and the German Patent Office
2005
Certificate in Intellectual Property law from Queen Mary College, London
2006-2009
Studies of European intellectual property law at Hagen University, Degree: Master of law
1981
Founding partner of patent law firm Andrae Flach Haug
2013
Patent attorney at ANDRAE I WESTENDORP
2016
Patent attorney at Friese Goeden
*Associate