Bruno WEIHS

Senior Partner
Patent and Trademark Attorney

Biography

A trained physicist, Bruno Weihs has more than 22 years of experience in the intellectual property field. After a one-year postgraduate course on IP, he worked in IP departments for international companies in Berlin and Paris. He continued his career by joining private firms and then created his own firm in France in collaboration with a U.S. IP firm. He then worked for Swiss and UK firms and frequently travelled to Japan, China and the U.S.A., specializing in assistance to Japanese patent applicants to ensure their rights in Europe and in the U.S. He is also working as an expert for EPO’s European Qualifying Examination, and manages our firm’s French office.

Activities

Global advice to clients in IP matters
Preparation of patent applications
Representation before the European Patent Office
Patent and non-patent literature research
Patentability analysis
Trademarks & designs
IP audits
Due Diligence
Litigation
Freedom to operate studies
Advice relating to counterfeiting and infringement
Education

Languages

French - English - German - Dutch

Titles

European Patent Attorney
French Patent Attorney (CPI)
Master’s Degree in Physics
Diploma in Intellectual Property - Patents, Trademarks and Designs (CEIPI)
Certificate in space management projects

Expertise

Physics
Consumer electronics
Data processing
Security
IT
Oil sector related technologies
Lasers
Optics
Space technology
Medical technology
Nanotechnology
Navigation systems
Energy distribution systems
Packaging
Sports
Watchmaking
Environmental technology

Professionnal experience

2011 - Present	Senior Partner and Patent Attorney, ANDRE ROLAND
2009 - 2011	Senior Partner and Patent Attorney, Novagraaf International, Geneva, Switzerland
2007 - 2009	Associate, Haseltine Lake, Munich, Germany
2001 - 2007	Founder and Associate Director, Osha Liang, Paris, France
1999 - 2001	In-house Patent Counsel, <b>Canal Plus Technologies</b>, Paris, France
1996 - 1999	Patent Attorney, Canal Plus Technologies, Paris, France
1995 - 1996	Patent Engineer, Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany
1993 - 1994	Physicist, ESTEC/ European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, Holland
1987- 1991	Language courses adviser, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

Education

1994 - 1995	Diploma in Intellectual Property - Patents, Trademarks and Designs (CEIPI), Strasbourg, France
1993 - 1994	Space management projects certificate, Technical University, Delft, Holland
1985 - 1993	Master’s Degree in Physics, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

	Regular participation at conferences on European case law and French patent law, FNDE, Paris