Patent Attor­ney (DE, CH) | Euro­pean Patent Attor­ney | Attor­ney-at-Law (DE) | Cer­ti­fied IP Lawyer | Euro­pean Patent Lit­i­ga­tor (UPC) | M.Sc. (Physics) |Part­ner

E‑Mail: s@dts.law
Tel:+49 (0)89 219996–0
Fax:+49 (0)89 219996–99

• patent lit­i­ga­tion and nul­li­ty proceedings
• oppo­si­tion pro­ceed­ings before the EPO
• patent- and trademark-strategy
• IP-due dili­gence, license agreements
• employ­ee inven­tion law

In addi­tion to man­ag­ing large patent port­fo­lios, Robert reg­u­lar­ly con­ducts oppo­si­tion pro­ceed­ings before the Euro­pean Patent Office (EPO) and the Ger­man Patent and Trade­mark Office (GPTO), as well as nul­li­ty actions before the Fed­er­al Patent Court (FPC). He is also fre­quent­ly appoint­ed in out-of-court nego­ti­a­tions, and has served as a spe­cial mas­ter in Ger­many in con­nec­tion with U.S. patent litigation.

With deep expe­ri­ence in employ­ee inven­tion law and patent port­fo­lio man­age­ment, Robert and his team are often brought in to lead IP due dili­gence inves­ti­ga­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly for major transactions.

Robert has worked exclu­sive­ly in intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty since 1994. He holds a Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Physics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of St. Andrews (Scot­land). He is:

• Reg­is­tered as a Ger­man Patent Attorney
• Autho­rized rep­re­sen­ta­tive before the Euro­pean Patent Office (EPO)
• Reg­is­tered Swiss Patent Attorney
• Licensed Attor­ney-at-Law (Ger­many)
• Euro­pean Patent Lit­i­ga­tor before the Uni­fied Patent Court (UPC)
• Cer­ti­fied IP Lawyer

Robert is active­ly involved in legal edu­ca­tion and training:

• CEIPI Tutor at the Uni­ver­sité Robert Schu­man in Stras­bourg, teach­ing “Oppo­si­tion Pro­ceed­ings before the EPO” in Munich
• Tutor and exam­in­er for the LL.M. pro­gram for Patent Attor­neys at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hagen
• Mem­ber of the Ger­man and Euro­pean Patent Bar edu­ca­tion programs

He is a co-author of:

• A lead­ing com­men­tary on Ger­man and EPO patent law
• A patent law hand­book, con­tribut­ing the chap­ter on patent strat­e­gy and monetization

Robert is a fre­quent speak­er at nation­al and inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences on:

• Patent infringe­ment proceedings
• EPO oppo­si­tion proceedings
• Ger­man legal prac­tice, par­tic­u­lar­ly nul­li­ty and infringe­ment litigation

“Si vis pacem, para bel­lum”

(If you want peace, pre­pare for war)

• AIPLA – Amer­i­can Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Law Association
• APAA – Observ­er at the Asian Patent Attor­neys Association

• Laser physics, opto­elec­tron­ics, optics, photonics
• Med­ical instruments
• Mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing, auto­mo­tive industry
• Process engi­neer­ing
• Nan­otech­nol­o­gy
• Com­put­er tech­nolo­gies, soft­ware-relat­ed inventions
• Sports tech­nol­o­gy
• Envi­ron­men­tal engi­neer­ing: fil­tra­tion, cat­alyt­ic con­vert­ers, recy­cling, solar energy
• Sol­id-state physics, ceramics

• Patent and trade­mark litigation
• Inva­lid­i­ty proceedings:
• Nul­li­ty before the Fed­er­al Patent Court (FPC)
• Oppo­si­tion and appeal before the Euro­pean Patent Office (EPO)
• Pros­e­cu­tion of patents and trade­marks before:
• Ger­man Patent and Trade­mark Office (GPTO)
• Euro­pean Patent Office (EPO)
• Uni­fied Patent Court (UPC)
• EUIPO (for­mer­ly OHIM)
• Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty (IGE)