Having been active in Intellectual Property (IP) protection since 2000, I obtained my comprehensive experience both as an in-house patent attorney in internationally operating companies in Germany, France, the United States, and Switzerland, and in private practice in Europe. I was registered as a European Patent Attorney in 2003 and as a German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt) in 2008. During many years until now in responsibility as an officer in a patent department of a large corporation I have gained practical competence in management and leadership

Examples from my experience:

• Active and passive opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office
• Active complaints and appeals before the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht)
• Management of infringement lawsuits before German civil courts (e. g. Landgericht) as in-house counsel of a party
• In-House Management of active and passive proceedings before German High Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof)
• Third party submissions in examination proceedings and in opposition proceedings
• Active patent litigation suit in the US having antitrust law issues
• Passive patent litigation suits in the US brought by competitors or by non-practising entities (NPE)
• Elaboration of IP Policies in companies and standard organizations
• Employee-inventor incentives in German affiliate companies of an international group
• Inbound licensing
• Outbound licensing
• Proprietor community IP contracts
• Development agreements
• Cooperation agreements
• Indemnification agreements
• Assignments of patent portfolios after acquisition

Dr Carsten Szymanowski, born in 1970, studied Physics at Leibniz-Universität in Hanover, Germany and at Imperial College in London, UK. He prepared his diploma thesis in 1995 at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, Germany. 1998, he earned his doctorate at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France with distinction. As a postdoc he conducted research at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany and at the University of Rochester in the state of New York. He received grants of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and of Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. He is co-author of more than fifty scientific publications and conference contributions focusing on Optics, Atomic Physics and Lasers.

At Munich Polytechnic (Hochschule München) he was assistant lecturer for patent and trademark law. In the European Patent Institute (epi) he served as a substitute member of the EPO finances committee from 2014 to 2017. He was a substitute member of council from 2011 to 2017

Dr Szymanowski is business fluent in German, English and French.

• Active and passive opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office
• Active complaints and appeals before the German Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht)
• Third party submissions
• Active litigation complaints in the US having antitrust law issues
• Passive litigation complaints in the US brought by non-practising entities (NPE)

• Elaboration of IP Policies in companies and standard organizations
• Employee-inventor incentives in German affiliate companies of an international group
• In-bound licensing
• Proprietor community IP contracts
• Development agreement
• Indemnification agreements
• Assignments of patent portfolios after acquisition