2021 – 2023 BARDEHLE PAGENBERG IP Academy
Your seminar series on intellectual property
Know what matters in IP: Improve your theoretical knowledge and practical skills during our two-year seminar course – free of charge.
What? Basic knowledge about all areas of intellectual property combined with valuable tips and tricks for your practice: How do I protect Ideas? How do proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Offices work? How do I litigate IP rights?
The first semester focusing on the European Patent Convention will be held in English. In the following semesters, selected English seminars and special events will take place – they are highlighted in the program.
When? On Wednesdays, 6 p.m. CET.
For whom? Newcomers to the profession from the IP departments of companies as well as budding lawyers, trainee patent attorneys, and legal trainees.
How? Live broadcasts from our new video stage via webinar and/or hybrid events once in-person participation is possible again.
Download program of 2021-2023 (subject to updates)
Our speakers are prestigious experts in their fields: experienced lawyers and senior consultants of our IP firm as well as distinguished external experts such as IP counsels of renowned companies, patent examiners, former members of Boards of Appeal, and judges of the German Federal Patent Court and/or the German Federal Court of Justice.
On September 15, 2021, our speaker and lawyer Prof. Dr. Alexander v. Mühlendahl, J.D., LL.M. (former Vice President of EUIPO) will kick off the new season with the event "The subject matter of IP rights".
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Register here to obtain your exclusive access to all recordings and presentations of the entire season and make use of our email reminders before each event.
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Renowned external experts, including:
- Johanna Brückner-Hofmann, LL.M. (VorsRichterin Landgericht Düsseldorf)
- Marianne Grabrucker (VorsRichterin am Bundespatentgericht a.D.)
- Klaus Hoffmeister (Bundesfinanzdirektion Südost)
- Uwe Scharen (Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesgerichtshof a.D.)
- Erik R. Swanson, U.S. Patent Attorney, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd., Frankfurt a.M.
- Christof Wolpert (Senior Director Patents, adidas AG)