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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
Titels
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, Canal Plus Technologies, 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 |
