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Ulrike Ciesla is a European Patent Attorney and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry. She has vast experience in examination, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European and German Patent Offices and has been involved in litigation proceedings relating to pharmaceutical patents in Germany and Switzerland. Ulrike now focuses on the enforcement of patents in Switzerland complementing MLL's strong patent litigation team.

MLL (since 2019), Hoffmann Eitle, Patent- u. Rechtsanwälte (1999–2019), European Patent Attorney (since 2004), German Patent Attorney (since 2004)

German, English

The Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, (GRUR), Patentanwaltskammer • Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), Healthcare Business Women (HBA), Mentor

UC Santa Barbara, Postdoc (1997–1999), University of Frankfurt, Dr. phil. nat. (summa cum laude; 1997), University of Mainz, Dipl. Chem. (1994)