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Studied Industrial Engineering at TU Berlin and at TH Karlsruhe, Fulbright scholarship at Union College in Schenectady, USA, MSIA in 1983, PhD from RWTH Aachen in 1988 (Fixation of Radioactive Waste in Sintered Glass). Practical professional experience in the field of materials science at Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center. Active in the field of intellectual property since 1988.
Once again in 2022 the business newspaper Handelsblatt names crown WITTEWELLER ‘Germany’s best lawyers’ in the field of industrial property rights. WITTEWELLER lawyers Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck and Mark Wegener were singled out for particular praise by the Handelsblatt.
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WITTEWELLER was once again hailed as one of the leading patent law firms in the category ‘Patent Filing Germany’ by specialist publisher JUVE in 2022.
Business magazine the Financial Times ranks WITTEWELLER as one of ‘Europe‘s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022’.
View RankingNews magazine FOCUS recommends WITTEWELLER – as it did the previous year – as one of the leading law firms for patent law in 2022 in its annual ranking of Germany’s corporate law firms. We are delighted with the result and take particular pleasure in the fact that, once again, our firm has succeeded in achieving an above-average approval rating among clients.
View RankingIn 2021, WITTEWELLER was again recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights.
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"Patent Filing – Germany 2021"
In 2021, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2021".
WITTWELLER was listed as a top patent law firm in 2021 in the FOCUS list of leading commercial law firms.
View rankingIn 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by the Handelsblatt as "Germany’s BEST attorneys" in the field of industrial property rights. On this occasion, the Handelsblatt gave a special mention to the WITTEWELLER attorneys Dr Volker Heuckeroth, Stephan Keck and Mark Wegener.
View ranking"Patent Filing – Germany 2020"
In 2020, WITTEWELLER was recognised by JUVE as one of the leading patent law firms in the category "Patent Filing Germany 2020".
The WirtschaftsWoche ranks WITTEWELLER among the top law firms in patent law. In the ranking for 2020, Dr Gabriele Laufer is singled out as a particularly recommended attorney.
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