Patent litigation and prosecution. Udo Altenburg has represented national and international clients in many opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office since its early days in 1978, working in close cooperation with the attorneys-at-law of the firm who represent clients in parallel infringement cases. He has decades of experience in preparing and coordinating extensive multinational proceedings with multilingual, interdisciplinary teams, particularly in the US.

Udo Altenburg’s technical focus ranges from medical devices (e.g. stents, catheters, dialyzers) and measurement technologies to spectroscopy, photogrammetry and NMR imaging, as well as many other areas of physics. He also focuses on traditional mechanical engineering (rolling mill technology, automotive technology) and consumer goods such as sports equipment.

Asia, particularly Japan, China and South Korea, is of particular interest to Udo Altenburg, whose extensive knowledge of and con-tacts in these countries has enabled him to successfully expand the firm’s Asian client base.

As co-founder of the firm and longstanding managing partner, Udo Altenburg was instrumental in bringing together patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law in one law firm.

Udo Altenburg is individually recommended in the Guide to the World's Leading Patent Law Practitioners 2009 (MIP) and in Chambers Europe 2010.

1968	Physicist at Volkswagenwerk AG, Wolfsburg
1969–1971	Trainee at patent law firm Görtz, Frankfurt
1971–1974	Trainee at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich and at patent law firms Plasseraud, Paris, and Brown, Beveridge, de Grandi & Kline, Washington DC
1974–1977	Established own patent law firm
1977	Co-founder and partner of Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler

1961–1967	Studied Physics at the universities of Hanover and Stuttgart, Germany; awarded “Diplom-Physiker” degree (Max Planck Institute for Metal Physics, Stuttgart)
1967 and
1969–1971	Studied Law at the universities of Würzburg and Frankfurt, Germany
1972	Admitted to the German Bar of Patent Attorneys
1978	Admitted as European Patent Attorney

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