Experts and facilitators

Dietrich Blumenröhr

Technical/Scientific Background:
Dipl.-Ing. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, KIT (1992), specialising in computer-aided design, fluid dynamics, applied thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. Research Project with AECL at Chalk River Laboratories, Canada.

Legal Background:
Active in the field of intellectual property since 1992; Examination as a patent assessor in 1995. In 1996 admission as a German Patentanwalt to the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), as a European Trademark Attorney and a European Design Attorney to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, formerly OHIM) and as a European Patent Attorney to the European Patent Office (EPO). 2023 admission as a European Patent Litigator to the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Areas of Activity:
Trademarks, designs, domains; contracts and agreements; strategic advice in particular for clients in drugstore retail, kitchen technology, construction technology and automotive technology.

Memberships:
German Patent Attorneys Bar Association, epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office), Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys, FICPI (Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle), LES (Licensing Executives Society), GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), INTA (International Trademark Association), Harmonization Committee of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA, Brussels)

Awards:

• WWL (Who’s Who Legal) Global Leader – IP – Trademarks 2022: Recommended
  National Leader – Germany – IP – Trademarks 2023: Recommended
  “Dietrich Blumenröhr is a highly experienced professional who is great to work with, responsive and proactive”
• IP STARS (Managing IP): Notable Practitioner (2022)
• WTR 1000 – the World’s leading Trademark Professionals 2023
  “Dietrich Blumenröhr of Lemcke Brommer & Partner is consistently efficient, patient and persistent in defending clients’ interests; forward-thinking international filing programmes and administrative actions are his bread and butter.“
• wipr2022 leaders – The leading guide to patent and trademark practitioners worldwide: Trademark Leader
• wipr2022 leaders – The leading guide to patent and trademark practitioners worldwide: Patent Leader

Magnus Kaiser

Technical/Scientific Background:
Masters degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the University of Freiburg in Breisgau (1990). Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg (1989 to 1992). Areas of expertise: semiconductor technology, solid state physics, optics, metrology, process engineering, surface technology.

Legal Background:
Active in the field of industrial property since 1992; examination as a patent assessor in 1995. Admission as German Patentanwalt and to the EUIPO as European Trademark and Design Attorney in 1996. Admission to the European Patent Office as European Patent Attorney in 1997. 2023 admission as a European Patent Litigator to the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Main Areas of Activity:
Formulating, obtaining, defending and asserting intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, design rights); strategic advice, contentious (legal) disputes, expert opinions. Technological focus in the fields of: Mechanical engineering, plastics and metal processing and forming, process technology, physical technology, information technology (hardware and software), civil engineering.

Memberships:
German Patent Attorneys Bar Association, epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office), GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property), Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys (Bundesverband deutscher Patentanwälte e.V.); FICPI (Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle), IDI – Institute for Regional Languages and Cultures, Freiburg Blues Association e.V. as an active musician.

“Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.“

– Wayne Gretzky

Dr. Jochen Dicker

Technical/Scientific Background:
Studied Physics at the University of Freiburg and at the University of Massachusetts (USA); Masters degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the University of Freiburg in 1998.
Scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg (1999 to 2003); Ph.D. from the University of Constance (2003) in Physics, specialising in the analysis and simulation of highly efficient silicon solar cells.
Areas of expertise: semiconductor technology, optics, metrology, electronics and simulation of electronic components.

Legal Background:
Active in the field of industrial property since 2003; Examination as a patent assessor in 2006. Admission as German Patentanwalt and to the European Trademark Office in 2006; Admission to the European Patent Office in 2008. 2023 admission as a European Patent Litigator at the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Areas of Activity:
All areas of industrial property; attainment, defence and assertion of property rights (patents, utility models, trademarks, design patents); strategic consultation, litigation and related legal disputes.
Primary areas of technological expertise: semiconductor technology, physical metrology, computer-implemented inventions (software), optics, household appliances, drugstore retailing products, landscaping and gardening machinery and tools, and automotive technology.

Stefan Urlichs

Technical/Scientific Background:
Master’s degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the University of Heidelberg with a focus on spectrometry, high vacuum technology, construction of measuring instruments, electronics, programming, surface physics, radio chemistry, physics of the atmosphere.

Legal Background:
From 1995 to 2013 active in the intellectual property area, employed in the intellectual property department of Alcatel, later Alcatel Lucent including the famous Bell Labs.
1999 admitted as European Patent Attorney. 2004 German patent attorney exam and admission as German Patentanwalt. 2007 Master of Laws in European intellectual property laws from the University of Hagen. 2023 admission as a European Patent Litigator to the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Areas of Activity:
All areas of industrial property; prosecution, defense and assertion of property rights (patents, utility models, trademarks, design patents); strategic consultation, litigation, and related legal disputes; employed inventor issues.
Primary areas of technological expertise: Telecommunications, electronics, optics, computer implemented inventions (software), physical technology, measurement engineering.

Memberships:
German Patent Attorneys Bar Association, epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office), GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).

Dr. Anke Leitner

Technical/Scientific Background:
Studies of Econophysics at Ulm University and Uppsala University (Sweden), Diploma in Econophysics from Ulm University (2008).
Scientific assistant at the Institute for Experimental Physics of Ulm University (2008 to 2011); Doctoral degree from Ulm University (2011) in Physics, specialising in nanomechnical properties of biopolymer Networks.
Areas of Expertise: Polymer physics, biophysics, network mechanics, atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, semiconductor physics.

Legal Background:
Active in the field of intellectual property since 2012, Examination as a patent assessor and admission as German Patentanwältin (Patent Attorney), European Trademark Attorney and European Design Attorney in 2015; admission as European Patent Attorney in 2016.

Areas of Activity:
All areas of industrial property; Patents, trademarks, design patents, utility models; strategic consultation, litigation and related legal disputes, in particular for clients in the field of mechanical engineering and semiconductor technology and drugstore retailing; employed inventors’ law.

Dr. Philipp Ganz

Technical/scientific background:
Studies of physics at the University of Karlsruhe. Masters degree in physics (Dipl.-Phys.) in 2009.
Research associate at the Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) from 2009 to 2012.
PhD in physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2012, focusing on the fabrication and characterization of semiconductors for detectors as well as for applications in spintronics.
Areas of expertise: Semiconductor physics, molecular beam epitaxy, X-ray spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, magnetometry.

Legal background:
Active in intellectual property since 2013. From 2013 to 2019 employed in the patent department of a medium-sized company in the field of mechanical engineering.
2017 admitted as European Patent Attorney at the European Patent Office. Admission as German Patentanwalt (Patent Attorney), European Trademark Attorney and European Design Attorney in 2021.

Areas of activities:
All areas of intellectual property; patents, trademarks, designs, utility models; license agreements; strategic consultation; litigation and related legal disputes; issues relating to the employee inventions act.

Memberships:
epi (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office), VPP (Association of Intellectual Property Experts), German Physical Society (DPG).

Dr. Dietrich Berger

Technical/scientific Background:
Studies in mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); graduation as Master of Science in 2014. Doctorate at the wbk Institute of Production Science at KIT in the department of Production Systems; graduation as Doctor of Engineering Sciences (Dr.-Ing.) in 2019.

Legal Background:
Active in the field of intellectual property since 2019, training as patent attorney; 2022 examination as a patent assessor and admission as German Patentanwalt (Patent Attorney), European Trademark Attorney and European Design Attorney.

Areas of Activity:
All areas of industrial property; patents, trademarks, design patents, utility models; licence and coexistence agreements; strategic consultation, litigation and related legal disputes; issues concerning the German act on employees’ inventions.

Björn Merkel

Technical/scientific background:
Vocational training as a mechatronics engineer. Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences with a specialisation in communications engineering. Master’s degree in electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), specialising in electromobility with a focus on batteries and fuel cells.

Legal background:
Active in intellectual property law since 2021.

Main areas of practice:
All IP matters; patents, trademarks, designs and utility models; delimitation and licensing agreements; strategic advice; contentious (court) disputes; employee invention matters.

Edith Möllinger

Legal Background:
Legal studies at the University of Regensburg and the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. First state examination and diploma from the University of Regensburg in 2008. Second state examination at the Oberlandesgericht Nuremberg (Higher Regional Court) in 2010 with a focus on advocacy. Legal training in a law firm in Dublin, Ireland. Specialist training course for intellectual property law at the Hagen Law School with examination in Munich in 2012.
From 2010 to 2019 legal specialist at the legal department of Google Ireland Ltd. in Dublin with a focus on trademarks.
Since February 2019 legal counsel at LBP.

Areas of Activity:
All areas of intellectual property with a focus on trademarks; coexistence- and license agreements and related antitrust law; copyright law; strategic consultation and disputes; employee invention law.

Gracia-Regina Blumenröhr

Areas of Activity:
Legal counsel at LBP for trademark delimitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements and license agreements // 1997-2010

Since 2011 specialized in the protection of trademarks, in particular defense and enforcement of claims in proceedings before the DPMA, BPatG, OHIM/EUIPO and the GC.

Additionally, Content Marketing Manager (HSB Academy) since 2021 and responsible for online and offline marketing at LBP as part of the Business Development team.

Legal Background:
Law studies at Heidelberg University with a focus on international law // 1988-1996.

Creative Background:
Trained as a goldsmith and silversmith at the Goldschmiedeschule Pforzheim // 1996-1999; self-employed goldsmith // 2000-2009