
Intellectual Property Consultant
Toronto, Canada Area

Intellectual Property Consultant
Toronto, Canada Area
With more than 12 years experience in Intellectual Property Rights, I assist companies and universities with identifying inventions, assessing invention disclosures for patentability and marketability and draft and prosecute patent applicatins. I furthermore train reseachers, engineers, and professionals in Intellectual Property Rights to raise the awareness on this subject. I further assist companies in drawing up and implementing Intellectual Property Strategies and in Portfolio Management.
I have a scientific background in applied physics and electronics, and I am a qualified European Patent Attorney having worked as a consultant and as an in-house patent attorney.
intellectual property, patentability, training, strategic management of IPR, intellectual property strategies, IPR portfolio management, inventions
(Legal Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
(Legal Services industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Legal Services industry)
April 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Patent & Trademark Agents, based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
2004 — 2007 (3 years )
● Drafting, prosecution and defending patent rights in the fields of electronics, software and hybrid car development in close collaboration with the respective R&D departments.
● Monitoring competitor activities, filing oppositions, supporting our licensing team and educating the R&D staff.
● Infringement and validity analysis of particular US patent families in the above technical fields and analysing possible ways of action
● Patent infringement court proceedings in China as Audi AG, as one of the first foreign companies, was accused of patent infringement in China in 2004, including:
● Discussions of strategies and preferable course of actions with our Chinese associates through numerous visits to Beijing.
● Invalidation proceedings before the Patent Re-examination Board in Beijing.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)
1997 — 2004 (7 years )
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
1989 — 1995
1986 — 1989
Kayaking, hiking, skiing