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About me
Altogether rather not an average attorney.
Who I am? I started as an apprentice and then graduated as a French and German engineer to end up as a Patent and Trademark Attorney.
Since 2010, I have been working in the field of intellectual property and I am entitled to represent clients before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the European Patent Office and the German Federal Patent Court. Of course, I am also entitled to participate in infringement cases before German civil courts.
Individual counselling with the focus on IP being a client’s economic tool and not for the insistence on being right is why I like my job. Even more so in an international or Asian context and preferably in an unconventional, pragmatic, human, direct manner.
Privately I tend to work with my hands, of course they may get dirty or oily . Moreover, I have a passion for tattoos and classic trucks.
Practices
- Development of filing strategies for trademarks and patents
- Counselling for start-ups and medium-sized businesses
- Inter partes procedures
- Participation in seizures of infringing products at trade fairs
- Freedom to Operate examinations
- Beneficial usage of IP outside the conventional thinking in a company
- Special defensive publications, in particular regarding China
- Member of the German Asia-Pacific Business Association
Characteristics
- Real-life experience in China
- Fully equipped mechanical, wood and vehicle workshop
- If it has wheels or floats, I most probably have a license for it
- Product development for an Arabic government entity
- Workshop for German companies with the German Chamber of Commerce Beijing
- Founding member of Rotary Salzburg International
- I am a patent applicant myself
- Fluent in all three languages of the European Patent Office
My Way
My way of becoming a Patent and Trademark Attorney was not a straight line but comes in very handy now.
First steps
1997 - 2000
Apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic and subsequent A-levels by second chance education
New Ways
2003 - 2008
Franco-German Dual M.Eng. in Production and Information Technology (private graduate school of engineering in Parisian suburb and University of Applied Sciences in Munich)
Rocketman
2006
Internship in the Transport Department of the European Spaceport in Kourou (French-Guyana)
美好的时光
2008
Master Thesis in China
Big'n'loud
2009 - 2010
Production planning engineer for large diesel engines
Learning by doing
2010 - 2017
Training for all above admittances at an international law firm in Munich with numerous stays abroad (e.g. China, UAE, USA).
Exchange
2016
Participation in an exchange program between the All China Patent Agent Association (ACPAA) and the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys including a longer stay in Beijing
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