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Dr Rainer Schiel
Associate
German Patent Attorney
Physicist
German Patent Attorney
Physicist
Rainer Schiel joined the Maiwald team in 2020, where he is primarily concerned with industrial property rights in the field of engineering.
As a Doctor of Physics, Rainer Schiel possesses a wide range of background knowledge in the fields of mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and optics. He has in addition amassed many years of experience in supercomputers. His broad expertise in the field of intellectual property law was acquired in various IP law firms and in an industrial patent department.
Career
Since 2020 | German patent attorney at Maiwald |
2018-2020 | German patent attorney at IP law firms and in industry |
2015-2018 | Trainee patent attorney at an IP law firm |
2008-2014 | Research associate at the University of Regensburg in the field of lattice quantum chromodynamics |
Education
2018 | Admitted to practice as German patent attorney |
2015-2017 | Studying law for patent attorneys at the University of Hagen |
2006-2008 | Doctoral degree in the field of theoretical particle physics at the University of Lawrence, KS, USA |
1999-2005 | Physics studies at the Technical University of Munich and at the University of Lawrence, KS, USA |
Practice Areas
Services
- Patent examination proceedings and portfolio management
- Application strategies and drafting of patent applications
- Freedom-to-operate- and validity opinions
- Opposition and nullity proceedings
Recognitions
- Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Fulbright Scholarship
Memberships
- German Patent Attorney Association
Languages
German, English