Ingo Kober (born 22 July 1942 in

Liegnitz Legnica (; , ; ; ) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River and the Czarna Woda. As well as being the seat of the county, since 1992 the city has been the seat of the Diocese of Legnica. L ...

, now Legnica in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

) 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 language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...

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), Main-Tauber district. It is a popular tourist destination due t ...

. 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 () at the MoJ, a position he held until taking over as third president of the

. 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 The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies, or ''Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' (CEIPI) in French (formerly the "Centre for International Industrial Property Studies", or "''Centre d'Études Int ...

(CEIPI), which is part of the

Robert Schuman University The Robert Schuman University (), also known as Strasbourg III or URS, was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. In 2007, there were nearly 10,000 students enrolled at the university, including more than 1,500 foreign students. The university ...

.
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on Munzinger-Archiv 1942 births Living people People from Legnica 20th-century German judges European Patent Organisation people {{Germany-law-bio-stub

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