He teaches patent and licensing law as an honorary professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, as a visiting professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., and the Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing, China, and as a consultant professor at Huazhong University, Wuhan, China. He is senior advisor of the board at the Tongji Global Intellectual Property Institute (TGIPI), Shanghai, China. Professor Dr. Goddar furthermore is an adjunct professor and an honorable consultant in international legal services at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. He is a director of the Global Institute of Intellectual Property (GIIP), Delhi, India. He is a past president of LES International and of LES Germany, and has received the Gold Medal of LES International in 2005.

In 2010, Professor Dr. Heinz Goddar was inducted into the Salzburg-based Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). The “IAM Strategy 250” yearbook counts him among the “World`s Leading IP Strategists 2013.” In the current “Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners 2013,” he is acknowledged as one of the leading German patent practitioners. In 2014, he has been inducted into the IP Hall of Fame.

JUVE Handbuch 2016/2017 rank Professor Goddar as one of the leading names among German Patent Attorneys with physics as their technical focus. Best Lawyers 2016 rated him amongst the top attorneys in Germany. Legal 500 Germany 2015/2016 recommends him in the field of Patent Law.