attorney-at-law
Attorney at law or attorney-at-law, usually abbreviated in everyday speech to attorney, is the preferred term for a practising lawyer in certain jurisdictions, including South Africa (for certain lawyers), Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and the United ...
and an expert in
intellectual property law
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...
. He was Director of the International Section of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (french: Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle or CEIPI), which is part of the
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.
The French university traces its history to the ea ...
,
France
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, from 1992 to 2007.
Ingo Kober Ingo Kober (born 22 July 1942 in Liegnitz, now Legnica in Poland) was the third president of the European Patent Office.
After completing his legal studies, Ingo Kober began his professional career in 1972 as judge and public prosecutor in Mannheim ...
, CEIPI News '', Speech at the occasion of the retirement of Dieter Stauder from his post of Director of the International Section of the CEIPI, ''epi Information'' 1/2007, pp 10-12 From 1992 to 2005, he was member of the
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation
. He also worked as an attorney-at-law with the firm Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler.* at Bardehle Pagenberg
He coauthored the 1200-page book "Singer/Stauder, ''The European Patent Convention, A Commentary'', 2003", considered as an international reference book on the
European Patent Convention
The European Patent Convention (EPC), also known as the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to ...
. He has published at least 100 academic papers.
Bibliography
* Singer/Stauder, ''The European Patent Convention. A Commentary'', edited by Margarete Singer and Dieter Stauder,
Carl Heymanns Verlag
Carl Heymanns Verlag GmbH is a legal, specialized publishing house with its seat in Cologne, Germany.
On 1 October 1815 Carl Heymann founded, at the age of 23, a bookshop in Głogów, Silesia. He later extended the bookshop into a publishing hou ...