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Gunnar Baumgärtel

Gunnar Baumgärtel

Work Department

Physics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software, Telecommunications

Position

Partner

Career

Physicist by training; Patent attorney since 1998, specialized in patent litigation and prosecution; vastexperience in handling patent infringement cases before the district and appeal courts, as well as nullitycases before the Federal Patent Court; actively involved in achieving a fundamental decision issued byGermany's Federal Court of Justice concerning the admissibility of post-grant amendments to claims;appointed as an arbitrator in various international arbitration proceedings

Languages

German, English, French

Memberships

treasurer general of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), 2010-2014 member of the executive board of the German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright Law (GRUR), since 2014 regular participation and lead of international academic committees of the AIPPI

Education

studies in physics in Berlin und Paris (École Normale Supérieure) doctoral degree at the FU Berlin (1993), research in the field of magnetism and superconductors and femtosecond-spectroscopy, more than one dozen publications in referied international academic journals und multiple presentations patent attorney (since 1998), partner at Maikowski & Ninnemann (since 1999) LL.M. (European Intellectual Property Law) at the Kurt-Haertel Institute, Fernuni Hagen

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