I'm Ralf Sieckmann

ABOUT ME

Ralf Sieckmann is German and European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney. He has attended European Patent law at C.E.I.P.I., Strassbourg. He studied Chemistry at Bochum University and Economics and Law at the Hagen University, School of Economics. Ralf has been educated at German Patent and Trade Mark Office, at Federal Patents Court, Munich, at the Düsseldorf District Court and at a big IP Law Firm in Cologne. Ralf obtained his diploma (M.Sc.) and doctoral thesis (Ph.D) at the School of Chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum, passed German Patent Attorneys Examination, the European Qualifying Examination and entered into EUIPO list after its opening. Ralf was admitted as patent attorney in 1990, in 1994 joined Cohausz Hannig Borkowski Wißgott, Patent & Trade Mark Law Firm, Duesseldorf and is Head of Chemistry & Trade Marks Division. He’s working for more than 25 years in industrial property rights protection, specialized in patent and trade mark law; management consultancy in IP (patent and trade mark strategies). Specialities: trade marks including new media, chemistry, pharmacy, chemical engineering and related non mechanical fields. Ralf was lecturer on industrial property at Duesseldorf University for Applied Sciences, first at School of Arts, and at School of Electrical Engineering from 2009 to 2012 teaching IP (patents, trade mark, design) to under-graduate students and regularly speaks on trade mark and patents topics. He is Referee @ North Rhine-Westphalia regional competition instance of Jugend forscht since 2004. He is Co-author of BUSINESS ANGELS, Lesson on Trade Mark Law in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Sound Trade and Service Marks – Legal aspects in AUDIO BRANDING, technical coordinator of INTERNATIONALES MARKENRECHT and Co-author of Lessons on Madrid Agreement and Protocol, Community Trade Marks after Publication. Ralf provides information on non-traditional trademarks worldwide since 2003 on www.Brainguide.com after Landmark decision C-273/00