Dr. rer. nat. Michael Schramm
Dipl.-Phys.
Attorney at Law
Certified IP Lawyer
European Patent Attorney
Primary Practice
His patent attorney and attorney at law experience comprises all matters of industrial property law with a focus on the field of technical industrial property rights and contracts.
Michael Schramm is doubly qualified both as an attorney at law and as a European Patent Attorney, and as a result has particular expertise in the fields in which law and technology come into contact. His activity comprises in particular consulting and litigation in patent cases before civil courts, in nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Supreme Court and opposition proceedings before the competent patent offices. This also includes due diligence examinations in the field of industrial property law and freedom-to-operate expertises. Among the other clients, he represents a leading automotive parts supplier and a major enterprise in the field of telecommunications in adversarial patent proceedings.
A further point of specialisation is advising on contractual issues, in particular in connection with licence, software and R&D contracts. He lectures regularly in this field. His clients here are above all small and medium-sized enterprises, together with clients from the public sector in the field of software contracts.
His technical focus is in the field of telecommunication, automotive and (nuclear) measurement technology. Patent applications in this field are handled inter alia for a high-tech enterprise from the field of nuclear measurement and safety technology.
Professional Experience
| 2002 | Founding of the firm BETTINGER SCHNEIDER SCHRAMM |
| 1999-2002 | Attorney at Law with Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler in Munich |
| 1996–1999 | Attorney at Law with Grünecker Kinkeldey Stockmair & Schwanhäusser in Munich |
| 1996 | National Intellectual Property Law Institute, Washington DC, USA |
| 1991 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA |
| 1987-1994 | Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung, Berlin |
Education
| 2000 | Admitted as European Patent Attorney |
| 1996 | Admitted as Attorney at Law (Munich) |
| 1989-1994 | Legal Studies at the Free University of Berlin |
| 1994 | Ph.D., thesis in nuclear spectroscopy: "Plain Shell Model States in 208Pb" (Free University of Berlin) |
| 1989 | Diploma in Physics (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
Memberships
Deutsch Amerikanische Juristenvereinigung (DAJV)
(German American Lawyers Association)
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (Vorstandsrat von 2000 bis 2006; Arbeitskreis Industrie und Wirtschaft) (DPG)
(German Physical Society)
European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
(Association for Industrial Property and Copyright)
Licencing Executives Society (LES)
Vereinigung von Fachleuten im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (VPP)
(Association of People in Industrial Property)
Languages
German, English
