Lutz Kietzmann, LL.M.
German Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
Mechanical Engineer
Lutz Kietzmann is deeply familiar with a wide range of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, automotive, transmission and forming technologies, construction engineering, measuring and control technologies as well as software-implemented inventions in these areas. He has particular expertise in the fields of renewable energies, mainly wind power. Most of his work relates to German and European intellectual property protection, in particular patent applications as well as opposition and infringement proceedings.
Since 2003 | Partner, shareholder and managing director at Maiwald |
Since 2002 | Patent attorney at Maiwald |
2000-2001 | Patent attorney trainee at Maiwald |
1996-2000 | Patent engineer for an industrial group |
2002 | Admitted to practice as European patent attorney |
2002 | Admitted to practice as German patent attorney |
2000-2002 | Studied law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen |
1995-1996 | Studied intellectual property law at the Humboldt University of Berlin |
1990-1995 | Studied mechanical engineering at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and Jyväskylä Institute of Technology |
- Patent prosecution and portfolio management
- Filing strategies and drafting patent applications
- Freedom-to-operate and validity analysis
- Opposition and nullity proceedings
- Patent litigation
- Recommended in Handelsblatt | Best Lawyers "Germany's Best Lawyers" 2020, 2021
- German Patent Attorney Association
- epi
- AIPLA
- INTA
- VPP
- FICPI
- BWE
German, English