Jochen Ehlers, LL.M.
Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Hamburg; several years in research and sales at STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Bremen; designing realtime software solutions in the field of power distribution, distributed artificial intelligence (“autonomous agents”), hydroacoustics and simulation.
Legal training as a patent attorney, including periods at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Patent Court, Master of Laws (LL.M.) 2008 (“European Intellectual Property”); Patent Attorney since 1996, European Patent Attorney since 1997, Partner since 1998.
Jochen Ehlers mainly works on patent infringement cases and on the prosecution and defence of intellectual property, where his litigation experience stands him in particularly good stead. He has special experience in writing and defending national, European and International patent applications in the fields of computer systems, data storage media, semiconductor technology, software, electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering and image processing. He also advises clients in all matters relating to national and European licensing.
Languages: German, English, and some French and Japanese
Co-author of the “Beck’schen Kommentar” on the European Patent Convention; Chairman of Special Committee Q176 of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) for drafting Implementing Regulations for the revised European Patent Convention 2000; lecturer at the German Lawyers’ Academy (“Strategic Deployment of Patents”).
Memberships: Board member of the German Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), Patent Attorneys Association, European Patent Lawyers Association (epi), Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP), Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys, Licensing Executives Society (LES), Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI), regular observer at the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA).
Publications
Case law means development of the law – especially in the field of industrial property rights. We are deeply involved in this process of ongoing adaptation, refinement and correction of legal frameworks; some of our specialist publications in this respect are listed below.
- Jochen Ehlers, Anmerkungen zum Urteil des LG Mannheim "Spurschlingerung mit Steuerungsdaten", Mitt. 2009, Heft 8-9
- Jochen Ehlers, "Auswahlerfindungen - das Erfordernis der erfinderischen Tätigkeit, andere Patentierungsvoraussetzungen und Schutzbereich", GRUR Int. September 2009
- Jochen Ehlers, "Cross-Boarder" - Patentverletzungsprozesse in Europa nach "Roche . / . Primus v. Goldenberg", zur Veröffentlichung vorgesehen
- Jochen Ehlers, Haftung für die mittelbare Verletzung von Rechten des geistigen Eigentums, GRUR Int. 2008, 935
- Jochen Ehlers, Teilanmeldungen von Patenten sowie Patentanmeldungen in Form der ,continuation'-Anmeldung oder der ,continuation-in-part'-Anmeldung, GRUR Int. 2007, 498
- Jochen Ehlers, Die Offenbarung in angemeldeten Patentansprüchen, in: Gewerbliche Schutzrechte und ihre Durchsetzung: Festschrift für Tillmann Schilling, 2007
- Jochen Ehlers, Änderung von Patentansprüchen nach Erteilung, GRUR Int. 2006, 679
- Jochen Ehlers, Strafschadenersatz als strittige Frage der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums, GRUR Int. 2005, 403
- Jochen Ehlers, Festschrift für Günther Eisenführ, (Hrsg. m. Christian Spintig), Köln, 2003
- Jochen Ehlers, Benkard (Hrsg.), Europäisches Patentübereinkommen; Beck'sche Kurzkommentare, 2002, Kommentierung der Art. 90 - 98, 133, 134, 163