Ingo Kober (born 22 July 1942 in
Liegnitz
Legnica (Polish: ; german: Liegnitz, szl, Lignica, cz, Lehnice, la, Lignitium) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River (left tributary of the Oder) and the Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 ...
, now Legnica in
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
) was the third president 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 .
After completing his legal studies, Ingo Kober began his professional career in 1972 as judge and public prosecutor in
Mannheim
Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's ...
and
Tauberbischofsheim
Tauberbischofsheim is a German town in the north-east of Baden-Württemberg on the river Tauber with a population of about 13,200. It is the capital of the Main-Tauber district. It is a popular tourist destination due to its numerous historical ...
.
In 1975 he moved to the
Federal German Ministry of Justice (MoJ), where he served until 1982.
He then worked for a short time as chief legal policy adviser before returning to the MoJ in November 1982 as head of its "Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs" department.
Subsequently he took charge of personnel and organisation (1985), then of overall administration at the MoJ (1986).
In January 1991, Ingo Kober was appointed
Secretary of State (german: Staatssekretär) at the MoJ,
a position he held until taking over as third president 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 held this post from 1 January 1996 to 30 June 2004. In 2007 he was President of the Administrative Council of the
Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI), which is part of the
Robert Schuman University.
CEIPI News
'', ''epi Information'' 1/2007, March 2007, pp 10-12
References
Further reading
* ''Ingo Kober, Präsident des Europäischen Patentamts, im Gespräch mit Klaus-Joachim Jenssen'',
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...
, Sendung vom 06.03.1998
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External links
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on Munzinger-Archiv
1942 births
Living people
People from Legnica
20th-century German judges
European Patent Organisation people
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