Katrin Winkelmann
Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Engineering studies at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and University of Westminster, Great Britain, Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.); post-gradual studies and PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Technical University of Aachen.
Several years of professional experience as strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Legal training at Eisenführ Speiser, at the division for patent infringement matters at Mannheim Regional Court, at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patents Court as well as in the in-house IP department of a globally leading company in the agricultural engineering business.
In her role as patent attorney, Katrin Winkelmann supports clients in the in the engineering field, particularly in mechanical, civil, naval and agricultural engineering as well as in filter technologies and renewable energies. She has professional experience in drafting, prosecuting and enforcing German, European and international intellectual property rights as well as in providing legal advice on employee invention issues. Further, Katrin Winkelmann is a member of a team of specialists at Eisenführ Speiser focused on patent valuation and portfolio management.
Languages: German, English.
Memberships: Patent Attorneys Association (PAK), European Patent Lawyers Association (epi), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys, Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP), Association of German Engineers (VDI)
Publications
- Katrin Winkelmann, Patentbewertung – Was ist geistiges Eigentum wert?, In: Perspektive Patentanwalt, e-fellows.net wissen, 2010
- Katrin Winkelmann, Kapitel "Schutzrechtsmanagement für industrielle Dienstleistungen. Möglichkeiten des Patent- und Kennzeichenschutzes für industrielle Dienstleistungen",, in Gaterman/Fleck (Hg.), Technologie und Dienstleistung, Innovation in Forschung, Wissenschaft und Unternehmen, Beiträge der 7. Dienstleistungstagung des BMBF, 2008, weiterer Autor: Julian Eberhardt
- Katrin Winkelmann, Schutzrechtliche Absicherung und Verwertung von innovativen industriellen Dienstleistungen, Integration von Intellectual Property Management in den Service Engineering-Prozess, in: UdZ - Unternehmen der Zukunft, Schwerpunkt Dienstleistungsmanagement, 2/2007.
- Katrin Winkelmann, Prospektive Bewertung der kooperativen Erbringung industrieller Dienstleistungen im Maschinenbau durch Simulation mit Petri-Netzen, Shaker Verlag, 2007, zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch. Diss., 2007.
- Katrin Winkelmann, Prospective Analysis of Cooperative Provision of Industrial Services Using Colored Petri Nets, in: Donatelli, S.; Thiagarajan, P. S. (Hrsg.): International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets (ICAPTN) 2006, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.