Dr. Andresen is admitted before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the Federal Patent Court of Germany (BPatG), the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Bundessortenamt and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO).

Dr. Andresen has extensive experience in the preparation and prosecution of German, European and international patent applications, opposition and appeal proceedings as well as world-wide patent prosecution in cooperation with partner law firms, in particular in the USA, Japan and China. Dr. Andresen is also specialized in patent search and investigation in national and international patent databases, protection scope analysis and furnishing Freedom-to-Operate opinions.

Dr. Andresen studied Biotechnology Engineering at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm. He completed his doctorate thesis in the field of immunology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering and was awarded his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Potsdam. Dr. Andresen spent several years as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Molly Stevens’ group at Imperial College London. He received multiple awards for his innovative research and has numerous first authorships in high impact journals. Dr. Andresen is also inventor of several patents and is therefore intimately familiar with the specific counselling and information needs in science and research with regard to intellectual property rights.

Dr. Scholz is admitted before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), the Federal Patent Court of Germany (BPatG), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Bundessortenamt and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO).

Dr. Scholz counsels clients in all matters of intellectual property protection. In addition to internationally operating companies, he has served numerous small and medium-sized businesses, start-ups and individual inventors alike and is thus well acquainted with the various aspects of intellectual property protection particularly relevant to these groups. Dr. Scholz is experienced in ex parte and inter partes patent, trademark and design proceedings. He also has a key interest in the area of the German Employees’ Inventions Act.

Dr. Scholz studied biochemistry at the Hanover Medical School (MHH) and the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He completed his doctorate in the field of cellular signal transduction at the MHH.

During his patent attorney education program, Dr. Scholz joined the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court of Germany as well as Lower Saxony’s patent litigation chamber at Brunswick regional court.