Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Patent Attorney at Pfenning in Berlin. Physics PhD. Legal focus: patent and trademark law. Technological focus: optics, medical technology, software, control systems, metrology, automotive engineering, HVAC. Scientific training at Heidelberg, Yale, Cornell. Extensive practical experience in optical instrumentation development, biophysics, life science. Registered as a German Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator, and European Trademark and Design Attorney.
Patent prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings, legal opinions (including patentability, validity, infringement, and freedom-to-operate analysis), trademark law, employees' inventions law. Technology focus areas: optics, medical technology, software, control systems, metrology, automotive engineering, HVAC.
Developed instrumentation, software, and methods for single-molecule microscopy. Investigated accuracy of protein synthesis, mechanisms of action of antibiotics and anticancer drugs.
Developed instrumentation and software for 3D high-speed single particle tracking and applied the system to the study of living cells.
Six-month industry internship. Built first laboratory prototype for subsequently released product (super-resolution microscope Leica SR GSD, currently available successor product: Infinity TIRF HP).
Developed 3D approach to then-novel super-resolution microscopy. Technology licensed and commercialized by Vutara (currently available successor microscope: Bruker Vutara VXL).