Andreas Vogel

Practice Areas

National and international registration and examination procedures

Extensive experience in opposition and appeal proceedings

Litigation, national annulment and infringement proceedings

National and international designs

Freedom to Operate analysis

Injury analysis

Strategic Consulting Intellectual Property

Monetary patent valuation on the basis of DIN77100

Career

Mechanical engineering studied with a focus on process engineering, diploma thesis in the field of energy technology at the Ruhr University Bochum

Studied "Economics for Engineers" at the Ruhr University Bochum

Studied "Law for Patent Attorneys" at Fern University Hagen

Trained as a German and European patent attorney as well as a German and European trademark and design lawyer in an internationally active patent law firm in Cologne as well as at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)

Studied „European Patent Litigator“ at the University Politecnico di Milano (Polimi)

Professional Memberships

German Patent Attorneys' Association, EPI, FICPI, LESI, AIPPI, VPP, GRUR

Andreas Vogel was a Member of Examination Committee III of the European Patent Office for the European Qualifying Examination (EQE) for more than 15 years

active member of FICPI, CET7 IP ENFORCEMENT AND ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Unitary Patent, Unified Patent Court (EU)

European Patent Law

German patent law

Languages Spoken

English, German, Spanish

Experience

Active in industrial property protection since the 1990s

Member of Examination Committee III of the European Patent Office for the European Qualifying Examination (EQE) since 2005

Lecturer at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the field of Intellectual Property

Continuously holds lectures in the USA and Japan on various topics of patent law, including the specifics of European patent law, optimization of US or JP patent applications for German or European subsequent applications, on the protection of software-related inventions

Industry Sector Expertise

Mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, process engineering

Optics

Medical technology

Telecommunication

IOT, AI and machine learning