HOEFER ACADEMY - Key Persons
Born in 1994 in Toulouse (France), he studied at the Technical University of Munich. After his first professional experience as an engineer, in 2021 he began his training in patent law.
Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He began his training in patent law in 2007, and was admitted as German patent attorney and as European patent attorney in 2011.
Born 1989 in Traunstein. Studied law with additional academic training in economic sciences at the Universities of Regensburg and Bayreuth. He has been working in the field of intellectual property rights since being admitted as an attorney in 2018.
Born 1975 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Studied chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. She began her training in patent law in 2006, and was admitted as German patent attorney in 2009 and as European patent attorney in 2010.
Born 1971 in Münster/Westphalia. Studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Admitted as attorney in 1998, has been working in the area of industrial property rights since.
Born 1978 in Bremen. Studied electrical engineering with a major in IT at the Technical University Dresden. He began his training in patent law in 2008, and was admitted as German patent attorney in 2011 and as European patent attorney in 2013.
Born 1967 in Munich, he studied at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Cambridge as a scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation, focussing on chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology. Following his Master degree at Cambridge University (M.Phil. Biochem.) he finshed his PhD thesis at the University of Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center. He began his training in patent law in 1995, was admitted as German patent attorney in 1998, and as European patent attorney in 1999. Partner at the law firm ANDRAE WESTENDORP (-2018)
Born in Sibiu in 1972. Studied physics at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technical University in Aachen. Dr. Blumenstengel has been working in the area of industrial property rights since 2003.
Born 1970 in Göppingen. Studied technical biology at the University of Stuttgart. After completing her PhD in biotechnology and time as a post doc in biochemistry, she began working in the patent department of an international pharmaceutical group. She was admitted as European patent attorney in 2006 and as German patent attorney in 2014.
Born in 1965 in Munich, studied chemistry at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich. She began working in patents in 2000 and was admitted as a German patent attorney in 2008 and a European Patent Attorney in 2009.
Born 1959 in Essen. Studied business administration and law at the Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster. After completing his PhD in the area of employment law (comparative law), he was admitted as attorney in 1988.
Born in Tübingen, he studied industrial engineering and mechanical engineering at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. He began his patent law training in 2016 and was admitted as a German Patent Attorney in 2021 and as a European Patent Attorney in 2022. Mr. Daul has experience in representing internationally operating companies in a wide range of patent disputes, including infringement, nullity, and opposition proceedings before the district courts, the Federal Patent Court, and the Federal Court of Justice. Owing to his many years of experience in a renowned management consulting company, and the Fraunhofer Institute, he also understands how to advise clients with regard to strategic and business management aspects.
Born 1994 in Schwelm. He studied mechanical engineering and industrial engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He spent parts of his studies at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain and at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Before his patent law training, he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He started his patent law training in 2022.
Born 1968 in Nienburg/Weser. Studied electrical engineering and IT at the Technical University of Munich. He began his training in patent law in 1995, and was admitted as European patent attorney in 1998 and as German patent attorney in 1999.
Born 1966 in Delmenhorst. Studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Braunschweig. After completing his graduate (Diploma) thesis in the area of communications engineering, he worked as an ASIC development engineer for several companies in Germany and the USA.
Born 1953 in Heidelberg. Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich.
After serving in the military, he obtained his Masters in biomedical engineering at ETH Zurich with a scholarship of the Bodossaki Foundation.
Born in 1992 in Landshut. Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He began his training in patent law in 2017 and was admitted as European patent attorney in 2021.
Born in 1991 in Braunschweig. Studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He began his training in patent law in 2018, and was admitted as German patent attorney in 2022 and as European patent attorney in 2023.
Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Studied European industrial property right law at the FernUniversität in Hagen. He began his training in patent law in 2011, and was admitted as German patent attorney and as European patent attorney in 2015.
Born 1967 in Esslingen a. N. Studied industrial engineering as well as mechanical engineering at the Technical University Berlin. He began his training in patent law in 1995, and was admitted as German patent attorney and as European patent attorney in 1999.
Studied physical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Munich. He began his training in patent law in 1990, and was admitted as European patent attorney in 1996 and as German patent attorney in 1998.
Born in 1975 in Dortmund. Studied media technology at the Ilmenau University of Technology. He began working in patent law in 2017.
Born 1950 in Lehrte. Studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University Hannover. Postgraduate studies in business and economics at the Technical University of Munich.
She was born in Xi'an and studied electrical engineering and IT at the Technical University of Munich. After completing her studies, she began working in patent law and was admitted as Chinese patent attorney in 2015 and as European patent attorney in 2016.
Born in 1982 in Henan. Completed his bachelor study in Industrial Engineering as his major at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and in Business Administration as his minor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, as well as his master study in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. After the scientific research work at the University of Munich for several years, he began his training in patent law in 2016.