GERMAN PATENT ATTORNEY*
EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY
EUROPEAN TRADEMARK AND DESIGN ATTORNEY
Main activities
Prosecuting patents and utility models, mainly in the field of chemistry and its modern peripheral areas, including polymer technology, material sciences, food technology, biotechnology, immunology and diagnostics
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, Russian, German
Education and professional experience
1967-1972
Studies of chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Degree: diploma in chemistry
1972-1975
PhD thesis in the field of metal catalyzed rearrangements of cyclopropene compounds in the group of Robert Weiss at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
1976
Research fellowship at the Institute of Organoelement Compounds (INEOS) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow
1977-1980
Training for patent attorneyship in a renowned patent law firm in Munich, the German Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court and the District Court in Munich
1981
Founding partner of patent law firm Andrae Flach Haug
2013
Patent attorney at ANDRAE I WESTENDORP
2016-2022
Patent attorney at Friese Goeden
*Associate until Dec. 2022