Niels Malkomes’ primary practice focuses on patent prosecution before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as proceedings before the Federal Patent Court. He also participates in patent infringement proceedings. A main technical focus is the field of electrical and optical functional coatings, thin film deposition technology and nanotechnology where he has gained several years of professional experience. Due to his wide educational technical background, Niels Malkomes also works in a variety of other technical fields, in particular in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering as well as telecommunication.

Dr. Niels Malkomes is the author and co-author of several inter-national scientific publications. He also made several inventions that led to patent applications and patents.

1997 - 2002	Scientist and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute of Surface Engineering and Thin Films in Braunschweig in the field of electrical and optical functional coatings, working in a variety of projects with partners from industry, in particular in the field of architectural glass coatings, transparent conductive electrodes, control and simulation of reactive sputtering processes
2002 - 2004	Project manager and team leader at a spin-off of the Bayer company in Cologne in the business field of nanotechnology based “self cleaning” optical coatings, biochips and thermolabels based on super-hydrophobic surfaces
2004 - 2006	Patent Attorney Trainee of „Maxton Langmaack & Partner“ in Cologne
2007 - 2008	Associate of a patent law firm in Frankfurt
Since 2008	Associate of the firm Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler

1991 - 1997	Studies of Physics at the Technical University Braunschweig, Degree in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) with a diploma thesis in the field of semiconductor physics and optics
1996 - 2000	Attending additional courses in Informatics and Electrical Engineering, in particular on artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms as well as analog and digital television broadcast
2001	Receiving a Doctor’s Degree in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) with highest honors from the common faculty of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Braunschweig with a thesis on “In situ control and stabilization of reactive magnetron sputtering processes”
2006	Internships at the Regional Court Düsseldorf and the Regional Court Braunschweig
2006 - 2007	Trainee at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court; admitted as German Patent Attorney and European Trademark and Design Attorney
2008	Admitted as European Patent Attorney

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