Maiwald GmbH

Ralf Kotitschkes’ main areas of interest cover all aspects of intellectual property protection, in particular patent prosecution and opposition proceedings, the preparation of clearance and validity opinions, design law and the law relating to employee inventions. The technical focus of his work is on medical, automotive, laboratory and semiconductor technologies, and also includes optics.

Partner
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
UPC Representative
Physicist

since 2017 Partner, shareholder and managing director at Maiwald

since 2017 Patent attorney at Maiwald

2008 - 2017 Patent attorney in own office

2004 - 2007 Freelance patent attorney

2000 - 2004 Patent attorney trainee at an IP law firm

German, English, French

2023 Admitted to practice before the UPC 2005 Admitted to practice as European patent attorney

2004 Admitted to practice as German patent attorney

2000 - 2002 Studied law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen

1996 - 1999 Doctoral degree in the field of high pressure physics and optoelectronics from the University of Surrey

1989 - 1995 Studied physics at Ulm University and the Colorado State University