Joachim von Oppen
Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Studied Engineering at the RWTH University in Aachen, specialising in control and regulation systems, simulation, power engineering and fluid engineering. He has worked on aeronautical engineering projects as member and Chairman of the Aachen Association for Aeronautics. He graduated in 1993 with a Master’s degree in Control Engineering.
Legal training at Eisenführ Speiser, the University of Hagen and at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Patent Court in Munich; internships for several months at a US firm of patent attorneys in 1994 and 1997. Patent Attorney since 1997, European Patent Attorney and European Trademark and Design Attorney. Partner since 2001, member of the Partners’ Committee.
Joachim von Oppen has special experience in the protection and defence of technical invention, namely in the fields of mechanical engineering, control systems, optics, acrodynamics; medical technology, textile machinery and composite fibre materials, semiconductor architectures and software. He is also specialised in the fields of design and trademark protection.
Languages: German, English, French
Berlin Coordinator of CEIPI (Centre d´Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle) training in European patent law at the University of Strasbourg.
Memberships: Patent Attorneys Association (PAK), European Patent Lawyers Association (epi), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI), Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP)