Counselling with regard to patent protection and copyright for computer-implemented inventions; managing open source programs; patent applications, patent infringement and validity proceedings concerning IT related inventions; license agreements and employee’s inventions.

 

Based on his long-time professional activities for IBM and his high-level involvement in German and international IP organizations, Fritz Teufel gained an international reputation as a renowned expert for intellectual property on IT related inventions. He is a regular speaker at IP seminars and conferences on this topic.

1968-1972	Research and development of hardware and software with IBM and at the Battelle Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.
1972-1984	Patent Assessor at IBM Patent Dep., Böblingen, Germany
1984-1988	Manager IBM IP Liaison Office, Munich, Germany
1988-1990	Assistant Counsel, IBM Intellectual Property Department, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1990-2005	Head of Patents and Copyrights, IBM Deutschland GmbH
Since 2006	Patent Attorney at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG, Munich

1960-1967	Studies of Physics at the Universities of Stuttgart and Munich
	Degree of Dipl.-Phys.

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