Bardehle Pagenberg

Intellectual Property / Patents, Designs

German and European Patent Attorney, UPC Representative, European Trademark and Design Attorney, Counsel

»IP is not just a profession – it’s a passion. Guiding clients through the options for protecting their IP and guarding their inventions and designs is like nurturing a seed or a sapling to become a tree.«

Sabine Kossak’s practice involves patent prosecution and litigation in the fields of chemistry and material sciences. She has over 20 years of experience in intellectual property rights and an extensive knowledge of chemistry, demonstrating particular strength in technical chemistry and chemical process engineering. She earned her doctorate in polymer chemistry through a cooperative project with BASF Coatings, focusing on continuous polymerization processes.

A further focus of her practice is design prosecution before both EUIPO and WIPO, and design litigation. Sabine Kossak is Vice-Chair of the GRUR Expert Committee for Design Law, member of the board of the German national group of AIPPI, the IPO Committee on Design Law, and the Knowledge Exchange Advisory Board of the University of Hamburg. In addition, she is a speaker at various conferences and gives lectures on patent law.

2024 - today German and European Patent Attorney at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG, Hamburg, Germany

2020 - 2024 Head of Hamburg Office Patentanwälte Olbricht Buchhold Keulertz Part mbB, Hamburg

2005 - 2020 Harmsen Utescher Rechts- und Patentanwälte Part mbB, Hamburg

2009: Partner 2005: German and European Patent Attorney, Head of Patent Prosecution

2004 Licensed to practice as a European Patent Attorney

2003 - 2005 German Patent Attorney at Müller Schupfner und Partner Part mbB, Buchholz i. d. Nordheide, Germany

German, English

Vice-Chair of the “Design law” committee of the German Association of Intellectual Property (GRUR), member of the board of the German national group of AIPPI and of the IPO committee for design law.

Member of the Knowledge exchange advisory board (Transferrat) of the Universität Hamburg (https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/exzellenz/fuenf-zentrale-themen/beratungsgruppen.html)

2003 Licensed to practice as a German Patent Attorney

2000 - 2003 Trainee patent attorney at Müller Schupfner und Partner Part mbB, Buchholz i.d. Nordheide, Germany

2000 - 2002 Law for Patent Attorneys at the FernUniversität, Hagen, Germany

1997 - 2000 Universität Hamburg, Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Hamburg: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Research project in cooperation with BASF Coating GmbH, Münster

1990 - 1996 Universität Paderborn, Germany: Degree in Chemistry (Diploma), Diplom-Chemikerin, Research project in cooperation with BASF Coating GmbH, Münster