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Frank Peterreins

Frank Peterreins is the Managing Principal in the Munich office of Fish & Richardson. He is qualified in Germany as an attorney-at-law and a patent attorney, and is also a European patent attorney. He has a wide-ranging patent litigation, EPO opposition and patent prosecution practice. Frank Peterreins was a patent examiner with the European Patent Office, and was a member of an EPO opposition division. He regularly holds lectures on patent law. He was invited four times by the European Patent Office to hold seminars in China, and he is lecturer with the EPO academy on oral proceedings.
(see also http://www.fr.com/frank-d-peterreins/)

Career:
MS, Technical University of Munich (1993, Mechanical Engineering)
PhD, Universität Karlsruhe (1996, Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude)
JD, University of Munich (1999)
EPO examiner (1999-2000)
Bardehle (2000 – 2007, partner from 2005-2007)
Fish & Richardson, Managing Principal (since 2007)

Admissions
German Attorney-at-Law (Munich)
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney


Languages
English
German

Fields of law
  • Intellectual property
  • Patent law: filing
  • Patent law: litigation, advice
  • Trademarks and design