Legal competence in your industry.

Michael Fleuchaus

Main areas of practice:

• Drafting and prosecution of German and European patent applications in the field of computer-implemented inventions (CII), optical, mechanical and electrical engineering, medical- and bio-technology as well as computer sciences
• Strategic advice on creating and designing  IP portfolios and the use thereof – if necessary – under the application of the German Employee Inventors Law
• Handling of patent and trademark litigation matters as well as inter-partes validity proceedings before German and European instances

Technical Education:

• Physics studies at the Technical University of Munich with special qualifications in non-linear optics and biophysics
• Specialization in the field of imaging techniques
• Several years of work experience in computer science as well as mechanical engineering

Scientific Activities:

• Department of Physical Biology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
• Biophysical Department of the Technical University of Munich
• Department of Internal Medicine of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Cardiology section

Legal Background:

• Trainee at the patent law firm of Wallinger & Partners, at the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as the Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany) in Munich

Memberships:

• German Patent Attorney Association
• FICPI, AIPPI, LES, GRUR, INTA, epi, VPP, DPG

Dr. Andrea Fleuchaus

Main areas of practice:

• Drafting, prosecution and enforcement of German and European patent applications in the field of virology, molecular biology, biochemistry, immuno oncology, microbiology, immunology and genetics
• Portfolio advising and Life-Cycle-Management
• Infringement and opposition proceedings

Technical education:

• Studies in biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich focusing on Genetics, Gene Therapy, Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Doctoral course of study in immunology and virology

Scientific Activities:

• Department of Membrane-Transport-Physiology of the Duke Medical Center in Durham, NC, USA
• Department of Neurochemistry of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried
• Department of Molecular Neurobiology of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich
• Ph.D.-Thesis on Recombinant Pox-Viruses for Vaccine Development at the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Munich
• Lecture in “PatentLaw / Protection of Intellectual Property”, masters course in paper technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich

Legal Education:

• Trainee at the patent law firm of Schroeter Fleuchaus Lehmann & Gallo, the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as at the Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany) in Munich
• Several years of industrial experience in the field of biotechnology and development of vaccines
• Advanced studies of US patent law and practice at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Memberships:

• German Patent Attorney Association
• Bavarian Patent Attorney Association
• FICPI, ECTA, INTA, AIPPI, VPP, epi
• VBio (Association of Biology, Bioscienes)
• GfV (German Society of Virology)

Dr. Andrew J. Morton

Main areas of practice:

• Drafting of patent applications in the field of computer-implemented inventions (software and hardware), data and signal processing, image processing, medical imaging (including endoscopy), nuclear physics (including nuclear medicine), optical instruments, medial instruments and apparatus
• Prosecution of patent applications in Australia and New Zealand
• Coordinating and assisting in the prosecution of patent applications in Europe, the US, Japan, Canada, Singapore and India
• Advising in design protection and prosecution of design registrations
• IP portfolio management and advice
• Patent and design litigation support
• Patent and trade mark oppositions in Australia
• Assisting in European patent opposition and appeal proceedings
• Licensing negotiations, in particular in Japan

Technical Education:

• Undergraduate science (majoring in physics) at the University of Melbourne
• Doctoral studies in experimental nuclear astrophysics at the University of Melbourne, including computer software development for the modelling of nuclear reactions and data analysis

Scientific Activities:

• School of Physics, the University of Melbourne (post PhD studies)
• Physics Department, Monash University
• Several scientific papers in “Nuclear Physics A”
• Lecturer in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Melbourne College of Advanced Education

Legal Background:

• Trainee and Australian and New Zealand patent attorney at the patent attorney and IP law firm Griffith Hack (Melbourne & Sydney), 1995–2001
• Principal, Griffith Hack (Melbourne), 2002–2017
• Lecturer in patent law (computer implemented inventions), Monash University, 2003
• Special Liaison for Japan at Griffith Hack, 2006–2016

Memberships:

• Fellow, Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia
• APAA, IPSANZ, AIPPI

Samuel Wu

Main areas of practice:

• Drafting and prosecution of European patent applications in the fields of electronics and computer-implemented inventions (CII) as well as the fields of mechanical, medical- and bio-technology
• Assisting prosecution of Japanese, U.S., Chinese, and Korean patent applications
• Assisting in patent litigation matters in Europe and Japan

Technical Education:

• Computer science studies at the University of Waterloo with special program in bioinformatics
• Several years of work experience in mid to large-size IT and tech firms and research labs across Canada and the U.S.

Scientific Activities:

• Nature publication with the Hospital for Sick Children
• Mathematics faculty of the University of Waterloo

Work Experience:

• Patent analyst and co-team leader of the electrical and electronics foreign staff team at the Japanese patent law firm Shusaku Yamamoto for over three years
• Handling patent applications in various jurisdictions for Japanese multinational electronics corporations
• Trained at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies, Strasbourg

Memberships:

• epi

Wolfgang Babl

Main Areas of Practice:

• All areas of Intellectual Property with focus on German and European trademark and design law as well as german competition law.
• Defense and preparation of warning letters, defence and obtaining preliminary injunctions.
• Drafting licence, coexistence and transfer agreements

Education:

• Law studies at the University of Konstanz and Bayreuth with a focus on Intellectual Property.
• Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich

Work experience:

• Several activities in law firms with focus on intellectual property

Dr. Benjamin Grau

Main areas of practice:

• Drafting and prosecution of German and European patent applications in the fields of life-science, medical technology, computerimplemented inventions, AI and microscopy
• Strategic advice on portfolio management
• Legal assessment of trademark searches
• German Employee Inventors Act
• inter-partes validity proceedings before German and European instances
  • patent and trademark litigation matters

Technical Education:

• Studies in biology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich focusing on Neurobiology, Botany, Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Doctoral course of study in Neurobiology and Biophysics

Scientific Activities:

• Doctoral thesis on neuronal growth at the BioImaging Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• PostDoc at Instituo Cajal, CSIC in Madrid

Legal Background:

• Trainee at the patent law firm Fleuchaus & Gallo, at the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as the Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany) in Munich

Memberships:

• German Patent Attorney Association
• FICPI, epi, VPP
• Active member of the epi’s Online Communications Committee (OCC)
• epi´s delegate in the EPO´s front office working group

Wolfgang Gallo

• Over 30 years of experience in all fields of intellectual property rights, particularly in litigation
• Drafting and prosecution of patent applications in a wide diversity of technical fields with emphasis in the mechanical and electrical fields
• Broad experience in trademark and design cases for foreign and domestic clients
• Providing infringement opinions
• Involvement in a multitude of infringement cases before most District Courts and Higher District Courts in Germany

Technical Education:

• Dipl.-Ing. (FH) in electrical and precise mechanical engineering at the Engineering College of Furtwangen
• Thesis on control engineering
• Manufacture and repair of electronic control devices

Legal Background:

• Patent engineer and trainee with a patent law firm in Augsburg
• Trainee at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patent Court of Germany)

Memberships:

• German Patent Attorney Association
• Bavarian Patent Attorney Association
• AIPPI, FICPI, GRUR