From research to actual use via technology transfer - the background and role of a patent attorney

by Dorothée Weber-Bruls (Boehmert & Boehmert, Frankfurt am Main)

Friday 26 Nov 1999, 11:00 → 14:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

All patent attorneys are originally scientists who had, after the completion of their studies, worked as a scientist for at least one year, and then became acquainted with intellectual property by training on the job for around three years to become a German patent attorney and for four years to become a European patent attorney, after final examinations. Therefore, patent attorneys have acquired an education adapted to become a link or interface between research and spin-off of technology into industrial applications, either within one company, between different companies or between a research center and a company. About the speaker Dorothée Weber-Bruls, Dipl.-Phys. Dr.rer.nat., (German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trademark Attorney, Partner) studied physics and geophysics at the University of Frankfurt and specialized in solid state physics. After graduation she worked at Max-Planck-Institute (Grenoble), Institute Laue-Lengevin (Grenoble) as well as Ris¿ National Laboratory, and as a teaching fellow at the University of Frankfurt (PhD in physics), being especially involved in materials science, magnetism, superconductivity as well as measurement and control engineering. Dorothée Weber-Bruls is still particularly interested in these areas of technology