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Dr. Franke is a chemist and a patent attorney with extensive experience in intellectual property law. He started his career with two established patent law firms in Munich, working on cases in German and European patent law. Thereafter, he worked as an attorney with a major US patent law firm, working on prosecution and litigation cases as well as opinion work in Munich, Boston and Atlanta.

The main focus of his practice is on:

• drafting patent applications
• the prosecution of patent applications before the patent offices
• defending patents in opposition proceedings and opposition appeals before the European patent office (EPO)
• registering and defending trademarks
• litigation before the German national courts and invalidity proceedings before the German patent court (BPatG) and the Federal patent court (BGH)

Prior to becoming a patent attorney Dr. Franke worked as a research scientist in Germany and the USA. He has a broad technical background, in particular in the following technical areas:

• chemistry, in particular process engineering
• material sciences, in particular new materials and nanotechnology
• polymers and new textil products
• mechanics
• software and processes
• medical technology, in particular stents and implants
• pharmaceutical products
• biochemistry und biotechnology

Dr. Franke received his doctoral degree in Chemistry from the Research Center Julich and the Institute of Technical Chemistry/University of Bonn (summa cum laude). From 2001 to 2004 he was a research scientist at the Chemistry Department of the renowned Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla/USA, also collaborating with Nobel Prize winner Barry Sharpless.

Dr. Franke is the author of a significant number of peer reviewed publications in the fields of Chemistry and Engineering.

Contact: franke@hfpatent.de.