Dr. José Maria Pfizer
Dr. José Maria Pfizer
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Diplom-Chemiker
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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José Pfizer’s practice focuses on patent prosecution and intellectual property counseling in all areas of life sciences, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
He advises pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as academic institutions, on patent law issues, such as obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights, freedom-to-operate and due diligence issues, with a particular focus on the strategic direction of the company and its business model, as well as on the cost/benefit ratio of intellectual property portfolios.
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José Pfizer studied chemistry at the University of Frankfurt am Main and received his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and the Technical University of Munich, specializing in organic chemistry and peptide chemistry.
He was admitted to the German Patent Bar in 2010 and to the European Patent Bar in 2011. After completing his training as a patent attorney in a well-known major Munich law firm, he worked for several years as in-house patent attorney and head of the IP department at a biotechnology company in the Munich area.
There, he advised and represented his employer on all aspects of intellectual property, in particular in the field of patent, and trademark law, in contract negotiations and on issues of employee invention law.
José Pfizer has been working as a patent attorney for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT’s Berlin and Munich offices since September 2022.
He is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), the Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP) and the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi).
Dr. Alexander Thamer
Dr. Alexander Thamer
Attorney at Law (Germany)
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Alexander Thamer advises clients in all aspects of trademark, competition and copyright law. His activities include the registration and defence of intellectual property rights in official proceedings as well as out-of-court and in-court representation in infringement proceedings.
A special focus of his consulting practice is in the area of copyright law. Here, he supports national and international clients in enforcing and defending against infringement claims and in connection with the exploitation of copyrighted works by way of individual and collective rights management and the negotiation and drafting of copyright agreements. In addition, he advises e-commerce and IT service providers, in particular on contractual, consumer protection law issues with a focus on software copyright law and IT contracts.
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Alexander Thamer studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin. During his subsequent work as a research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, one of his main research areas was the enforcement of rights on the Internet, in particular the provider liability.
Since joining BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in 2019, Alexander Thamer handles all aspects of intellectual property and unfair competition law.
Alexander Rabe
Alexander Rabe
Patent Engineer
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Alexander Rabe is mainly involved in the drafting of patent applications and examination reports in national and international proceedings. He also is responsible for prior art searches and FTO analyses. His activities focus on various fields of pharmacy and life sciences.
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Alexander Rabe studied General Biology with a focus on Immunology and Epigenetics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. During his studies he spent a research stay in Oslo, Norway, where he investigated the influence of immune modulators on leukemic cells. After his studies he worked for a biotech company in Lausanne (Switzerland) where he gained insight into the development of screening assays.
In collaboration with this company and the Albert-Ludwig-University of Freiburg, Alexander Rabe is doing his doctorate in the field of neuroimmunology, the focus of his thesis is the description of a new microglia subpopulation.
Alexander Rabe has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT since April 2020.
Dr. Oleg Lebedev
Dr. Oleg Lebedev
Patent Engineer
European Patent Attorney
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Kurfürstendamm 18
510707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Oleg Lebedev is mainly involved in drafting patent applications and handling examination and opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office. He is also experienced in conducting prior art searches and FTO analyses. His focus is on applications in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, in particular organic chemistry and small molecules.
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Oleg Lebedev studied chemistry with a major in organic synthesis at the University of Tartu, Estonia. For his doctorate he conducted research on new synthesis methods for nitrogenous heterocycles. He also conducted research on asymmetric hydrogenation at Uppsala University. In addition, he worked for more than 5 years as a project manager and business development manager in the chemical industry.
Since 2018, Oleg Lebedev has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in the field of industrial property rights.
Elias Schneider
Elias Schneider
Patent Engineer
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Elias Schneider mainly deals with the processing of patent applications and examination notices at national and international level. Furthermore, prior art searches and freedom-to-operate analyses are part of his responsibilities. The main focus of his work as attorney patent engineer focuses on various fields of mechanical engineering and physics.
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Elias Schneider studied both mechanical engineering (M.Sc.) and physics (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Copenhagen. He completed both degrees in 2018. Within the scope of his master’s thesis, he focused on fluid dynamics and machine learning. His master thesis in mechanical engineering was developed in cooperation with a leading technology group. Besides his studies he gained practical experience at an innovative Berlin-based start-up company.Elias Schneider has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT since 2019.
Dr. Andreas Dustmann, LL.M.
Dr. Andreas Dustmann, LL.M.
Attorney at Law (Germany)
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Plaza Santisima Faz, 3 -1 / B
03002 Alicante
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T +34 (965) 21 53 99
F +34 (965) 21 39 65
Andreas Dustmann studied law at the University of Heidelberg, Complutense University of Madrid, and University of Cologne. He obtained the degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Edinburgh in 1995. In his doctorate work, Andreas Dustmann was concerned with the liability of internet service providers for online copyright infringement. From 1998 to 1999, he was a research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2001, Andreas Dustmann joined BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT and became a partner in 2007.
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Andreas Dustmann acts on behalf of his clients including domestic and foreign undertakings in a wide range of intellectual property work. He is well known, among other things, for the legal representation of some US film studios in the fight against internet piracy. He has been a legal advisor for the construction of several video-on-demand portals and eCommerce platforms, and provides ongoing counsel to media companies, agencies, and dealers on legal issues of the internet. Another focus of his work is representation in court proceedings. For years he has represented clients in complex legal disputes, especially in the area of unfair competition, copyright, trademark, and design law. He is also increasingly active in patent litigation. Clients appreciate his ability to work towards solutions for cost-effective, amicable settlement.As a specialist in domain law and practice, Andreas Dustmann acts in domain name disputes both before the German courts and in arbitration before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Besides his litigation practice, he manages the trademark and design portfolios both for medium-sized and globally operating companies.The JUVE Handbook 2016/2017 has once again selected Andreas Dustmann as one of the specially recommended lawyers for trademark, unfair competition, and media law in the state of Brandenburg. He regularly writes on copyright and internet law topics and has been a lecturer on copyright law at the University of Potsdam since 2010.Andreas Dustmann is a co-author of the Praxishandbuch Geistiges Eigentum im Internet (Practical Handbook on Intellectual Property in the Internet, 2003), the Handbuch Kunstrecht (Handbook on Arts Law, 2nd edition 2012), and the Fromm/Nordemann Commentary on Copyright Law (11th edition, 2014).Since 2007, he has chaired the specialist lawyers’ committee on copyright and media law for the state of Brandenburg, and is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and of UNION.
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Dr. Thomas L. Bittner
Dr. Thomas L. Bittner
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Diplom-Physiker
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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As a Patent Attorney Thomas L. Bittner focuses on technical intellectual property rights, especially patents and utility models, both with respect to filing and prosecution, as well as litigation. Also, he advises and represents his clients in opposition proceedings and revocation proceedings before the German authorities and courts, and before the European Patent Office. Thomas L. Bittner advises companies on the establishment and strategic development of intellectual property rights portfolios, including licensing. His special technical interests are, among others, electrical and mechanical engineering, semiconductor devices, medical devices, and software patents.
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Thomas L. Bittner studied physics at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. After his PhD he worked as a scholarship holder of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US. He started his career in the field of intellectual property at the patent department of IBM Germany in 1995.
Thomas L. Bittner regularly teaches intellectual property law both in Germany and abroad. He was a visiting lecturer at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute of the University of Potsdam for many years. For the German Attorney Academy he is teaching in a course about the protection of software.
In addition, he held a training course on European patent law for several weeks in China. Since 1999, he is a partner of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT.
Dr. Adrian Steffens
Dr. Adrian Steffens
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Diplom-Physiker
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Adrian Steffens focuses on patent applications in the fields of physics, mechanical engineering, information technology and electrical engineering. He is moreover involved with opposition proceedings and conducts freedom-to-operate analyses.
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After completing an intermediate diploma in industrial engineering with focus on electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, Adrian Steffens studied physics (diploma) and mathematics (B.Sc.) at the Free University of Berlin. At the China Electric Power Research Institute in Beijing, he worked on the grid connection of wind turbines. Within the framework of his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he conducted research in quantum information science and quantum computing with a scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He moreover worked on topics in quantum chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society.
Adrian Steffens joined BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in January 2018.
Dr. Sebastian Schlegel
Dr. Sebastian Schlegel
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Diplom-Ingenieur
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Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (30) 23 60 76 70
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Sebastian Schlegel studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, specializing in biomedical engineering. For his PhD, he conducted research in the field of telemanipulation systems for minimally invasive surgical interventions. Sebastian Schlegel joined BOHMERT & BOEHMERT in 2016.He is a member of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys, the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI), the German Association for Industrial Property Protection and Copyright (GRUR), the Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP) and the Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys.
Dr. Martin Wirtz
Dr. Martin Wirtz
Attorney at Law (Germany)
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Jägerhofstraße 21
40479 Dusseldorf
Germany
T +49 (211) 71 17 00
F +49 (211) 71 17 017
Kurfürstendamm 185
10707 Berlin
Germany
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Martin Wirtz works in all fields of intellectual property matters, with a particular emphasis on trade mark, competition, and copyright law, including litigation. A further focus of his work is patent infringement proceedings. His clients include large and medium-sized firms as well as international companies and associations from a wide variety of different areas. His further field of activity includes contract drafting in the area of intellectual property, especially licensing. Martin Wirtz has been working exclusively in the field of intellectual property law since 1995 and has a considerable amount of scientific experience.
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Martin Wirtz studied law and ancient and modern history at the universities of Passau, Freiburg and Cologne. After passing the first state examination, he did research on the law of the collecting society in Europe as part of a diploma course under the supervision of Professor Bill Cornish at the University of Cambridge. During his legal clerkship he worked for an international law firm in Paris. He completed his doctorate after passing the second state examination. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Cologne on the German and European control of collecting societies.
Martin Wirtz regularly publishes articles dealing with trade mark and copyright law as well as competition law. Amongst others, he periodically writes articles for the Notices of German Patent Attorneys and is co-author of the Practice Handbook of Intellectual Property on the Internet (Beck Juristischer Verlag) as well as of the Commentary, Götting/Nordemann on the Law Against Unfair Competition.
He is co-author of the renowned copyright reference work Fromm/Nordemann: Copyright Law (from 11th edition).The JUVE Handbook 2019/2020 lists him once more amongst the particularly recommended attorneys in the category “trade mark and competition law.” He is listed as a trademark and design expert in the 2020/21 edition of The Legal 500 Germany. Best Lawyers recognizes him in the area of intellectual property in the 2020/21 edition.
He is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR) and the International Trademark Association (INTA). Since the winter semester of 2007, he has lectured on intellectual property law at the University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden.
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