Joachim Mader

Intellectual Property / Patents

German and European Patent Attorney, Partner

»As an engineer I am trained to evaluate and balance all reasonable options to solve problems in order to find the best-fitting solutions. I love working closely with my clients to help them reach their goals in IP matters.«

Joachim Mader's main areas of practice include the prosecution of patents, invalidity proceedings and infringement proceedings in the various technical fields of mechanical engineering and processing technology. His core technical areas include float glass and fabricated glass products, robotics, automotive technology, process control, and hydraulics. His work particularly focusses on opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office.

He cooperates closely with the firm’s attorneys-at-law in (parallel) nullity and infringement proceedings before the Regional Courts, the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Patent Court, which enables him to provide practice-oriented advice relating to filing patents at the EPO and the German Patent and Trademark Office.

His clients include one of the world's largest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products, a German world leader in the field of industrial robots and a major Japanese heavy industry company.

2006

Qualified as a European Patent Attorney

2005 Admitted to the German Bar of Patent Attorneys

2004 - 2005

Trainee at the German Patent Office and at the Federal German Patent Court

2002 - 2004

Trainee at the patent law firm Zipse and Habersack, Munich, Germany

1999 - 2001

Development Engineer in the R&D department of the BMW Group, Munich, Germany

1998

Research Assistant and diploma thesis with DaimlerChrysler AG, Ulm, Germany

1998

Awarded the degree of a Dipl-Ing. (TH)

1993 - 1998

Studies of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Aachen (TH), Germany