Anna Katharina Dr. Heide, LL.M.

strategic IP with a business perspective...is an investment, not an expense!

Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

I welcome contact requests, provided you state your reason for contacting me. I maintain a lively network with thematic and content-related exchanges. My migration short story I was born in Poland, in Gliwice, a working-class town. Anyone who wasn't in the right party back then was politically monitored and kept in poverty economically. My parents fled in 1987 with two children. The documents required for a new start were hidden and sewn up in the car. Previous reports from neighbors who had been stopped at the border and sent back to Poland without documents fueled the fear. After 2 days we arrived in Germany. We children assumed it would be summer vacation and that we would return to our own school and friends. After a stay in the Friedland reception camp in Lower Saxony, my parents looked for jobs and sent us children to school - without any previous knowledge of German. The rest is my CV. If you have a problem with my migration background, you can stop reading here and feel free to delete me from your contacts if we are already linked. Area of professional practice: Advice and support in all matters of intellectual property law, including drafting and filing of patent applications, support and representation in examination proceedings, representation of your interests in oppositions and appeal proceedings as patent proprietor or opponent, support in license negotiations and drafting of license agreements, monitoring/attacking third party intellectual property rights, prosecution of and expert opinions on patent infringements in Germany, Europe and internal cases in the fields of biotechnology, biochemistry, biopharmacy, pharmaceutical biotechnology, molecular diagnostics and (bio)medical technology. I see myself as a creative partner who specializes in strategic consulting for the optimal protection of your innovations and the strategic expansion of your IP protection in line with your product and market development.

Experience

  • Inhaberin, Patentanwältin, European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative at ambidex IP
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Personal Focus - strategic IP with a business perspective I act as the external patent department of SME and support my clients in all aspects: Drafting/filing patent application, Expert opinions relating to freedom-to-operate, Enforceability of one’s own property rights and the validity of the property rights of third parties, Patent infringment cases, Patenting of technology, as well as their defense against challenges, appeal proceedings, license negotiation and licencse agreements. Fields of Specialization Biotechnology including enzyme technology, molecular biology, new modilities, diagnostics and biochemistry, process optimization of the production of proteins, amino acids and "small molecules", biosimilars, interdisciplinary interfacial technologies, interfacial and water chemistry, anti-biofouling, disinfectants, biocides, cosmetics, natural substances, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, multidisciplinary products, combination with software and AI in Biotech, diagnostics and life Sciences

  • Patentanwaltskammer (11 yrs 6 mos)
    • Mitglied im Ausschuss für Biotechnologie der deutschen Patentanwaltskammer
      2015 - Present · 11 yrs 6 mos

    • Stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Ausschusses für Biotechnologie der deutschen Patentanwaltskammer
      May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

  • Patentanwältin, European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative at RUHR-IP Patentanwälte in Bürogemeinschaft
    Dec 2012 - Mar 2024 · 11 yrs 4 mos

    Establishment of the Biotech section at RUHR-IP: Drafting, filing, Expert opinions relating to freedom-to-operate, enforceability of one’s own property rights and the validity of the property rights of third parties, patenting of technology, as well as their defense against challenges, trademark opposition and appeal proceedings, license negotiation and licencse agreements Fields of Specialization Biotechnology including enzyme technology, molecular biology, diagnostics and biochemistry, process optimization of the production of proteins, amino acids and "small molecules", biosimilars, interdisciplinary interfacial technologies, interfacial and water chemistry, anti-biofouling, disinfectants, biocides, cosmetics, natural substances, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics.

  • Patentreferentin at internationale Patentanwaltskanzlei
    2009 - 2012 · 3 yrs