Maiwald GmbH

Ralf Kotitschkes’ main areas of interest cover all aspects of intellectual property protection, in particular patent prosecution and opposition proceedings, the preparation of clearance and validity opinions, design law and the law relating to employee inventions. The technical focus of his work is on medical, automotive, laboratory and semiconductor technologies, and also includes optics.

Partner German Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Physicist

since 2017 Partner, shareholder and managing director at Maiwald since 2017 Patent attorney at Maiwald 2008 - 2017 Patent attorney in own office 2004 - 2007 Freelance patent attorney 2000 - 2004 Patent attorney trainee at an IP law firm

German, English, French

epi VPP

2005 Admitted to practice as European patent attorney 2004 Admitted to practice as German patent attorney 2000 - 2002 Studied law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen 1996 - 1999 Doctoral degree in the field of high pressure physics and optoelectronics from the University of Surrey 1989 - 1995 Studied physics at Ulm University and the Colorado State University