Michael Platzöder’s practice primarily covers all matters relating to patents and utility models from prosecution to enforcement, litigation and defense as well as counseling in the areas of International Intellectual Property Management and Licensing with an emphasis on high-tech sectors including semiconductor, telecom, computer, electronics, Smart Cards and information technologies.

Having spent many years of his career in the globalized semiconductor and telecom industries and having borne responsibility for a broad range of Intellectual Property and telecom-standards related matters, Michael Platzöder has gathered an intimate knowledge of these industries and markets and the related world of Intellectual Property in Europe, USA and Asia. Professional activities ranged from IP-generation, protection and portfolio management to enforcement, litigation, patent and technology licensing, sale and acquisition, R&D-cooperation, M&A, dispute resolution (ADR), risk management and the conception and implementation of IP-strategies for businesses acting in international markets. He is a regular speaker at IP seminars and international conferences on these topics and an active member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES).

 

 

1995 - 1998	Patent professional, Siemens AG, Corp. Patent Dept. and Semiconductor Group
1998 - 1999	Manager of an IP-Management group, Siemens Semiconductor Group
2001 - 2003	Director Intellectual Property, Cooperations & Licensing, Infineon Technologies AG, Business Group Wireline Communication
2004	Director Innovation, Intellectual Property & Standards, Infineon Technologies AG, Business Group Secure Mobile Solutions
2005 - 2008	Senior Director Intellectual Property & Standards, member of senior management, Infineon Technologies AG, Communication Business Group
Since 2008	European Patent Attorney and Associate of “Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler", Munich

1988 - 1995	Studies of Physics at the University of Munich, Degree of Dipl.- Phys.
1994 - 1995	Scientist and Diploma Thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Garching near Munich
2003 - 2004	Global Management Development Program, Babson Business School, Boston
2007	Admitted as European Patent Attorney
Since 2008	Studies of general Law at the University of Hagen, Germany

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