Profile

Stephan’s daily business is accompaning inventions from their beginnings to a possible litigation as well as avoiding conflicts with property rights of competitors.

He studied physics and dedicated his PhD theses to the construction of a laser system having a CPA-amplifier and time resolved spectoscopy.

Technical Areas

• Optics
• Plant engineering
• Printed circuit boards
• Automotive
• Forming and molding technologies
• Mass production
• Spectroscopy
• Medical products
• Satellite technology

Legal Expertise

• Perfoming prior art searches and montitoring property rights of competitors
• Managing patent portfolios
• Drafting patent applications and utility models
• Opposition and appeal procedings
• Infringment and nuility actions
• Performing infringment analysis and validity options
• Identifying circumvent solutions
• Conducting workshops

Memberships

• FICPI – Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle
• EPI – European Patent Institute