Albrecht Rau M.Sc., Ph.D. (Oxford)
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL LAW,
including infringement proceedings, for example in the areas of mechanical engineering, semiconductor materials, plastics processing, steal production and general engineering
TRADEMARK AND DESIGN LAW,
including infringement proceedings, for example in the areas food and beverages, toys, furniture, clothing, household and in the above mentioned technical areas
LICENCE AGREEMENTS
competition law and general LEGAL ISSUES relating to intellectual property
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- Physics studies of at the University of Erlangen, Imperial College London, the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris and the University of Oxford
- Master degree (M.Sc.) in Physics at the University of Oxford (member of the German National Scholarship Foundation)
- Dissertation (Ph.D.) in Physics at the University of Oxford (algorithms for neural networks); award of the MINERVA prize by a subsidiary of the Max Planck Foundation
- Postdoctoral work at the Weizmann Institute, Israel and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Training in the patent attorney firm Schwabe, Sandmair, Marx in Munich from 1993 to 1997
- Law studies at the University of Munich and the University of Hagen from 1993 to 1996
- European patent attorney since 1996
- German patent attorney (year’s best exam), European trademark attorney since 1997
- Author of more than thirty scientific publications in physics and in patent and trademark law
- European design attorney since 2003
