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Dr. Ernst-Peter Heilein
born in Mettmann in 1964, studied Air- and Space-Technologies with emphasis on design engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Neubiberg. At this time, attending lectures about patent law, utility models and employed inventor's law, he became particularly interested in the protection of intellectual property. Thus, in 1993, he selected this as topic for his diploma thesis, and closely dealt with the question if the German Utility Model may serve as alternative protection in practice. Then followed further studies «Law for Patent Attorneys» at the Comprehensive Distance University of Hagen as well as basic studies of European Patent Law at the «C.E.I.P.I.» - Robert Schumann University (C.E.I.P.I.), Group Cologne. Dr. Heilein has been practically working in the field of intellectual property sinde 1996: first, as counselor for inventors at the Patent- and License department of the Federal Office of Defense, Technology and Procurement, Koblenz; then as trainee patent attorney at the IP law firm Bardehle in Düsseldorf. After periods at the OLG Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court), the DPMA (German Patent and Trademark Office) and the BPatG (Federal Patent Court) Munich, he succesfully passed his examination in the field of intellectual property as German Patent Attorney in 2000. At the same time he worked at the dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) supervised by Professor Dr. jur. Hanns Ullrich, M.C.J., Head of the Institute of Comparative Business Law at the University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, with the title: „The Significance of the Property Rights for Semiconductor Chips in Practice – prognosis and problems of a special law protection“. Since his admission as Patent Attorney in autumn 2000, Dr. Heilein has been advising and representing especially small and medium-sized companies as well as free inventors and "start-ups" in all essential fields of intellectual property; since 2002 in Unterschleißheim near Munich. Languages: German, Englisch, (elementary French).
Christiane Heilein
born in Siegen in 1968, a studied violoncellist, is Office-Manager of the Patent Law Office of Patent Attorney Dr. Heilein since its opening in Unterschleißheim in the year 2002. Languages: German, Englisch, (elementary Spanish).
Cornelia Kuhn
born in Weil am Rhein in 1971, after studies of social pedagogy, career change to trainee as Patent Attorney's Assistent and passes the examination in 1996 with very good results. With long experience she has been supporting Patent Attorney Dr. Heilein since 2007 in all formal client affairs concerning national and international ip-rights Languages: German, Englisch, (elementary French).
