German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney European Trade Mark and Design Attorney Diplom-Physiker

Christian W. Appelt is focused on personal counseling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of Intellectual Property, especially Patents and Utility Models, and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China, and the US. His technical concentration is on physics, mechanical engineering, electronics, and computer technology (ICT). Besides drafting and prosecuting patent applications, Christian W. Appelt especially concentrates on representing and advising his clients in opposition and nullity proceedings, as well as in patent litigation proceedings. He represents his clients at the German patent authorities and courts, as well as at the European Patent Office (EPO) and at the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Christian W. Appelt has been a member of the Board of the German chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) since 2010, acting as President from 2018 to 2020 and is now member of the Advisory Board of LES Germany. He is also member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR).

Christian W. Appelt studied physics, majoring in Solid State Physics (Dipl. Phys. equivalent to MSc) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Besides his professional career in Europe, he worked in Japan for two years for a patent law firm in Osaka, in the patent department of Ebara Corporation, and in the IP department of Sony Corporation in Tokyo.