Dipl.-Phys. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas L. Bittner
German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney, Partner, Berlin
studied physics at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. After his PhD he worked as a scholarshipholder of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US.
Thomas L. Bittner started his career in the field of intellectual property at the patent department of IBM Germany in 1995. Since 1999 he is a partner of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT.
His professional work as a Patent Attorney focuses on the technical intellectual property rights, especially patents and utility models, both with respect to filing and prosecution as well as litigation. Also, he is advising and representing his clients in opposition proceedings and revocation proceedings before the German authorities and courts and before the European Patent Office. Thomas L. Bittner is advising companies on establishing and the strategic development of portfolios of intellectual property rights, including licensing.
His special technical interests are, among others, electrical and mechanical engineering, semiconductor devices, medical devices and software patents.
Thomas L. Bittner regularly teaches intellectual property law both in Germany and abroad. He was a visiting lecturer at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut of the University of Potsdam for many years. For the German Attorney Academy he is teaching in a course about the protection of software. Also, he was holding a training course on European patent law for several weeks in China.
The JUVE Handbook 2011/2012 lists him as one of the often recommended patent attorneys.
