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Prof. Dr. Michael Trimborn
Attorney at Law
Michael Trimborn studied legal science at the University of Cologne until 1989. After his legal traineeship, he was admitted to the bar in 1993. Since then, Michael Trimborn has been practising industrial property law in leading law firms, focussing on the law on employees’ inventions, patent law, trademark and competition law, design protection, technology transfer, “green” cartel law, R&D cooperations, license and sales contracts. Since 2000 he has had a teaching assignment for patent and inventors’ law at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technischen Hochschule RWTH Aachen In 2008, he was appointed honorary professor.
In patent law, Michael Trimborn specializes in litigation and strategic advice (freedom-to-operate, expert opinions on infringement issues etc.). In the law relating to employees’ inventions he conducts numerous proceedings before the Board of Arbitration and the courts and develops lump-sum compensation models with purchasing provisions for global concerns. In trademark law, Prof. Trimborn specializes in well-known trademarks and opinion polls (e.g. Kinder I and II decisions, and against Ferrero’s shape mark of the unwrapped “Rocher” chocolate).
Prof. Trimborn is the co-author of patent law, employed inventors’ and trademark law commentaries and handbooks and regularly publishes articles on industrial property law. Since 1995 he has been regularly giving lectures in seminars on current inventors’ law issues (e.g. BIO 2005) and patent law topics in Germany and abroad. Trimborn is a permanent reporter on the Law on Employees’ Inventions in the “Mitteilungen für Patentanwälte” (Carl Heymanns Verlag).
Prof. Trimborn works in further training courses for certified IP specialists.
Ref. Dr. jur. Nico Herbst
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Junior lawyer cand. Dr. jur (2018)
1. state examination 2014
Final-participant at Manfred Lachs Space law Moot Court Competition 2010/2011
Semester abroad at National Law School of India University, 2011/2012
Assistant Lecturer/Researcher at Lehrstuhl für Völkerrecht, Europarecht, Europäisches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht, University of Cologne 2014-2017
Paqui Sanchez-Trimborn
Secretariat
Executive secretary, until 2001 in a leading Spanish law firm
Languages: German, English, French, Dutch and Flemish
Güler Kaya-Acisu
Secretariat
Degree in construction engineering
Languages: German, Turkish, English
In cooperation with
As an important additional benefit to clients, we offer, upon request to cooperate with outstanding patent law firms and independent IP consultants from the industry. This way, the range of services is supplemented by:
- Relevant up-to-day industry knowledge: Chemistry, pharmaceutics, medical engineering, biotech, Power plant technology, internationals plant and mechanical engineering, door technology and access control, textile machines
- Property right applications (worldwide); opposition, appeal, nullity proceedings
- Competition-related property rights strategies as part of an R&D process (identification and monitoring of competitors; securing of sectors and exclusivity)
- Freedom-to-operate reports and the assessment of validity and infringement
- Monetary and legal evaluation of property rights and portfolios
- Training of inventors and patent divisions
The cooperation partners mentioned on this web page represent a possibility to obtain further services. All cooperation partners are legally independent and there is no legal connection. Contracts with cooperation partners have to be concluded separately in each case. Absolute confidentiality according to the Rules of Professional Practice and contractual secrecy shall also be maintained vis-à-vis the cooperation partners.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Zacher, MBA
Attorney at Law, lawyer specialising in tax law, bank and capital market law, tax advisor
Area of work:
Commercial law, financial law, taxes, automotive industry, real estate industry, finance and services sector, film and television, artists
In addition to working as a lawyer and tax advisor, Prof. Zacher teaches Management Administration/International Business at a German university.
This additional expertise can be useful in particular in the following areas:
- Assessment of international cases and cases involving groups of companies, also from an economic point of view
- German and international corporate law
- German and international tax law, from dealing with employee inventions to intermediate companies and holdings as right holders
Dr. Bernd Fabry
Dipl. Chem., German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trademark Attorney (formerly Henkel, Head of IP Cognis, now Founder, Partner and CEO IP2 GmbH)
Area of work:
(Bio) Chemistry, Process Technology, Trademarks, German Employee Inventors Act
Bernhard Nöhles
Dipl.-Ing. mechanical engineering, German Patent Attorney, European Design and Trademark Attorney
Area of work:
Power plant technology, internationals plant and mechanical engineering, door technology and access control, today: Head of the patent division of a renowned manufacturer of textile machines
