Schnekenbühl, Robert

Senior Partner Patent Law Firm

• Studies of law in Bonn, Erlangen and Munich, I. und II. State Examination in Munich; Master of Science by research in physics University of St. Andrews (Scotland) „A tunable all solid state laser based on Cr4+:YAG“
• Admission as European Patent Attorney and German Attorney-at-law in 1997, as Attorney-at-law in 1998, as Specialist Solicitor for IP law in 2007, Registration as Swiss Patent Attorney at the IGE in 2011, Admission as representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator/UPC) in 2023
• Working experience in international law firms in Munich and New York, the European Patent Office (Munich, Directorate of Patent law), Chamber of Patent Litigation at the District Court in Munich (21. Chamber), Assistant to the managing board of a company in the chemical industry

• 2020: Co-author “Handbuch des Patentrechts” Haedicke/Timmann, chapter on patent management und Patent monetization, publisher C.H. Beck
• 2008 – 2022: Co-author of a commentary on patent law for the German Patent Act and the EPC (European Patent Convention) „Fitzner, Lutz, Bodewig“ – commenting the provisions for the opposition proceedings before the EPO (Art. 99 – 105c), filing of patent applications of not-entitled persons Art. 61 EPÜ, the opposition proceedings of the German Patent Act PatG (§ 59 – 64 PatG), the nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the vindication, § 8 PatG; Online-commentary publisher C.H. Beck
• 2005 – today: member of the academic team of the FU Hagen, Co-Author of the course on „Opposition Proceedings according to the EPC” and author of the course on “Basics of the EQE at the EPO”
• 2001 – today: CEIPI-Tutor, especially for opposition proceedings at the EPO and the filing of patent applications by non-entitled persons, Art. 61 EPC
• 2001 – today: member of the examination board for the examination of German patent attorney candidates in the context of the legal course at the FU Hagen.

• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI)
• Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
• Member of Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI)
• Member of Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)