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- has studied physics and computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) including one year of graduate studies at the York University, Toronto, Canada as scholar of the Baden-Württemberg-Ontario exchange program.
- He graduated in physics in 2007, obtaining his Diploma with a thesis on Electronic Transport through Quantum Dot Rings with Spin-Orbit Interaction.
- The following post-graduate studies at the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics were successfully completed in 2011, when he obtained his PhD in physics from the Karlsruher Institut of Technology (KIT) on the topic of Topological Spin Liquids.
- Then, a post-doctoral studies at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg in the area of Quantum Computation.
- In 2015, he began training as a patent attorney in our firm, as well as at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal German Patent Court in Munich. After successful completion of his training, he received his admission as a patent attorney and as a European Trademark and Design Attorney in early 2019.
Mrs. Pöhner studied jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg. Having passed the examination, she established herself as an attorney-at-law, focusing on business affairs.
She then switched to the civil service and worked for several years as a public prosecutor, mainly in the economic department.
Mrs. Pöhner holds distinctive expertise within the domain of trademark law:
Studied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 1972 Dipl. (with distinction) in physics, followed by scientific work, and a PhD in physics supervised by Prof. Scherzer.
Trained as patent attorney in several patent attorney offices and the German Patent and Trademark Office and at the Federal German Patent Court and at a patent litigation court.
1983: Admitted as German Patent Attorney
1984: Trained, passed the exams, and admitted as European Patent Attorney.
1996: Admitted as European Trade Mark Attorney.
2002: Additional Training in genetic engineering.
Following his retirement in late April 2022, Dr. Pöhner will maintain an advisory role within our law firm, contributing his many years of extensive practical experience.