Electronical Team
Bernhard Ganahl
European Patent ＆Trade Mark Attorney
Main activities
Bernhard focuses on drafting and prosecuting patents mainly in the fields of electrical engineering, software related inventions, apparatus for biotechnology and optical devices. He is also experienced in enforcing opposition cases and infringement suits. In addition, he has considerable practical experience with the prosecution of trademarks.
Education
Bernhard studied Applied Physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and graduated in 1990. Between 1990 and 1993 he was employed as a technical assistant in a Munich patent law firm including placements at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Federal Patent Court. He was admitted as a German Patentanwalt in 1994 and he qualified in the same year as a European Patent Attorney.
Professional experience
Before joining Huber & Schüssler in 2004 Bernhard Ganahl worked for 10 years as Patent Attorney and was partner in the patent law firm Reinhardt Söllner Ganahl. He is now partner of Huber & Schüssler. In 2007 he co-founded Eurattorneys EEIG in Munich, Germany.
He is author of the articles “Patentsituation im Bereich der DNA-Chiptechnologie in Europa”, in medgen 12, 2000 and “Ist die Kerntheorie wieder aktuell?” in Mitteilung der deutschen Patentanwälte, December 2003. The first article relates to the patent situation of DNA-Chips in Germany. In the latter article he discussed the German case law relating to software related inventions.
Languages: German, English.