JOHANNES TRAPP
PARTNER
PATENTANWALT
EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY
EUROPEAN TRADEMARK AND DESIGN ATTORNEY
Main activities
Advising international and domestic clients on obtaining, defending and revoking patents, utility models, trademarks and designs, as well as enforcement thereof
Handling inventions and drafting patent applications, particularly in the fields of mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, medical technology, physics, telecommunication, software (e.g. control methods and algorithms; Blockchain) and electrical engineering
Examination, opposition and appeal proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office, supervision of examination, opposition and appeal proceedings abroad
Conducting proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) with regard to Community trademarks and Community designs protected within the EU territory
Licensing agreements, FTO opinions and Employee Invention Law
Education and professional experience
- 2005 - 2011
- Studies in physics at the Technical University of Munich with a focus on laser physics and quantum information; Master thesis on waveguides based on Surface Plasmon Polaritons for near infrared light
- Extracurricular participation in the entrepreneurial qualification program Manage&More of the UnternehmerTUM. Executing innovation projects for the business partners of the UnternehmerTUM and developing an independent business idea up to the creation of a start-up
- 2011 - 2012
- Research associate at the chair of Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. T. W. Hänsch at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Responsible for the design and the fabrication of plasmonic waveguides using micro- and nanofabrication techniques and designing and constructing an optical test setup for the plasmonic waveguides
- 2012 - 2014
- Patent attorney trainee at the patent law firm Prinz & Partner in Munich
- 2015
- Education at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the District Court in Munich; passing the German patent bar exam with distinction and admission to the bar
- 2016
- Registration as a professional representative at the European Patent Office (EPO) as well as at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
- 2018
- Partner of the patent law firm Prinz & Partner in Munich
- 2021
- Partner of the patent law firm FLACH | BAUER | PARTNER
- Experience in the IP field since 2011
- Teaching:
- Lecturer at the Technical University of Ilmenau (PATONakademie) for patent strategy, company-attorney-workflow, patent claims and oppositions
- Admissions:
- German Patent Attorney
Professional representative before the European Patent Office (EPO)
Professional representative before the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante/Spain (EUIPO) - Languages:
- German, English; basic knowledge of Spanish and French