Michael Dörfler

Patent Attorney - European Patent and Trademark Attorney

Education

1990-1997 Study of Technical Physics at the Technical University of Munich
1997 Diploma thesis on "Spectroscopic in-vivo determination of photoactive drugs"
2000-2003 Study of Law for Patent Attorneys at the University of Hagen

Professional Experience

1997-1999 Employment at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) in the solar collector development
1999-2000 Employment at TÜV Süd, monitoring of nuclear power plants
2000 Patent Attorney Trainee at a firm of patent attorneys in Munich
since 2001 Occupation in the patent department of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich
2004 Patent Attorney Examination
2006 Admission as a European Patent Attorney
2007 Admission as a German Patent Attorney and as a representative before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market Trade Marks and Designs ("European Trade Mark Attorney")
since 2008 in cooperation with the firm of attorneys at law and patent attorneys Klinger & Kollegen in Munich

Technical Main Subjects

Optics, laser technology, energy engineering, solar thermal systems

Languages

German, English

Memberships

PAK Chamber of Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer)
epi Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (Institut der vor dem Europäischen Patentamt zugelassenen Vertreter)
FICPI International Federation of Industrial Property Representatives (Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle)

Publications

Weishäupl M., Dörfler, M.: Verwertung von Patenten mit mehreren Inhabern (Exploitation of Patents having several Owners), in: Festschrift für Polter, p. 189-200 (2007)
Muschaweck, J.; Spirkl, W.; Timinger, A., Benz, N.; Dörfler, M., Gut, M. and Kose, E.: Optimized reflectors for nontracking Solar collectors with tubular absorbers, Solar Energy, Vol. 68, p. 151-159 (2000)