Physicists as patent attorneys

Patent attorneys have the professional task of independently advising inventors and creative people of all kinds with regard to patents, trademarks and designs and representing them vis-à-vis third parties. The job description of a patent attorney is located at the interface between technology and law. Patent attorneys support highly specialized physicists, technicians and chemists in evaluating their innovations and setting the right course for legal protection and commercial success at an early stage.

Against this background, the lecture will examine, among other things, the question of how a trained physicist can enter the world of law and take up the exciting and varied profession of patent attorney. It will also give an impression of what the day-to-day work of a patent attorney is like, what it actually means to be an "independent organ of the administration of justice" and what all this has to do with physics.

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