Prosecution and litigation of patents are the main areas of Christof Karl's legal practice. He has worked for a number of clients in the fields of computer software and hardware as well as telecom-munications. Further activities include counseling in Computer law, Internet law and Copyright law issues.

Christof Karl successfully defended a large network producer against alleged patent infringement before the District Court Mannheim and also conducted successful nullity proceedings against the patents-in-suit before the German Federal Patent Court. In another case he counseled a start-up company in the area of internet services regarding a contract for the development of software and questions on telecommunication and data protection law.

Being trained as an attorney-at-law and a computer scientist, Christof Karl is qualified to handle both the legal and the technical aspects of patent infringement cases. His professional training for the patent bar added further insight and experience in the pro-secution and invalidity proceedings of patents.

1994-2002	Software developer with various companies, amongst others iXOS Software AG, jambit GmbH, Siemens Business Services
2000-2002	Trainee at law firms in Spain, Costa Rica and France
2003	Attorney-at-law at the Munich office of Baker & McKenzie
2003-2007	Attorney-at-law and Patent Attorney Trainee with the firm "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler", Munich
Since 2007	Patent Assessor

1993-1999	Study of computer science at the Technical University Munich; Degree of Dipl-Inform.
1996-1997	Study and Diploma in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, England
1996-2000	Legal studies at the University of Munich
2000	First State Examination
2003	Second State Examination, admitted as German Attorney-at-law
Since 2002	Doctoral thesis at the University of Munich (scope of copyright protection for software)
2007-2008	LL.M. studies in Intellectual Property Law at George Washington University (GWU), Washington, DC

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