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Vol.11, No. 45, Autumn 2018
Thorsten Bausch
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Dr. Thorsten Bausch is a senior partner at the IP law firm Hoffmann Eitle with offices in Munich, London, Milano, Madrid, Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Amsterdam. He is co-head of Hoffmann Eitle’s chemistry group and concentrates on chemical and biotech patents, with a particular emphasis on litigation (both cross-border and national), oppositions, appeals and alternative dispute resolution. His main technical expertise is in the areas of pharmaceuticals, polymers and immunology.
Dr. Bausch has been involved with numerous cases before the EPO Opposition Divisions, Boards of Appeal, including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, the German Federal Patent Court, the German Federal Court of Justice, and the European Court of Justice. He is the editor of "Nichtigkeitsrechtsprechung in Patentsachen" (German Patent Nullity Cases), a four-volume collection of decisions of the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Court of Justice on patent nullity matters; author of numerous articles on German and European patent law in renowned journals and a frequent lecturer in and outside of Germany on patent law subjects. In addition, Dr. Bausch regularly blogs on www.kluwerpatentblog.com
Friederike Heckmann
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Dr. Friederike Heckmann is a senior patent counsel at Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH in the area of Crop Science. She is mainly focusing on global prosecution, litigation and mediation, and has special expertise in the area of SPCs.
She graduated in chemistry from the Philipps-University of Marburg and University of Cambridge, and obtained her doctoral thesis from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. In 2005 she started her career in the IP business, working for a well-known patent law firm in Munich. After 10 years in private practice, she changed position and began working for Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH. Dr. Heckmann is qualified as a German and European Patent Attorney.
Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
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Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH is an affiliated Company of Bayer AG handling the entire IP.
Hoffmann Eitle
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Germany
Arbitration
Agriculture
December 2018
Vol.11, No. 45, Autumn 2018