Bardehle Pagenberg

Intellectual Property / Patents

European Patent Attorney, Counsel

»Being reliable and focused on the needs of others are major imperatives to me. I apply them to support our clients in patent prosecution and litigation.«

Dr. Michael Wolfgang Waschak is a European Patent Attorney and focuses on the field of electrical engineering, particularly telecommunications, processor technology, audio and video coding, control engineering, and electric machines.

In addition to handling patent prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, he regularly participates in technologically complex patent infringement proceedings before all relevant civil courts and parallel invalidity proceedings before the German Federal Patent Court.

Dr. Waschak draws on knowledge and experience from his career in industry, having worked as an engineer, project lead, and program manager. He was responsible for multidisciplinary industrial research and development projects in international settings on several continents.

Dr. Waschak is the inventor of several patents as well as author of scientific publications in the field of electronic engineering with a focus on electrical drives and renewable energies.

2026 - today Counsel of the firm

2021 - today European Patent Attorney at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG in Munich, Germany

2012 - today Patent Engineer at BARDEHLE PAGENBERG in Munich, Germany

2010 - 2012 Program Manager, Corporate Technology, Siemens, Munich, Germany

2006 Ph.D. in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.), FernUniversität, Hagen, Germany

2005 - 2010 Lead Engineer, Global Research, General Electric, Munich, Germany

German, English, Polish

2003 - 2005 Doctoral candidate, Corporate Research, Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, Germany

1998 - 2003 Degree in Control Engineering and Robotics, Poznań University of Technology, Poland