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Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation
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Profile
Specialisation: Klaus Haft is attorney and also holds a diploma degree in Physics since 1997. He advises in patent infringement litigation and subsequent litigation regarding damages in the entire area of intellectual property law, namely patent, know how, design and trademark law. His technical focus is on computer hard- and software, telecommunication and data compression (image, speech and music) as well as electronics, optics, semi-conductors and general mechanics.
Professional Memberships : AIPPI, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physics Society), GRUR, IPO, LES, VPP. Klaus Haft frequently speaks at national and international conferences on various topics of IP law, especially on damages following patent infringement and publishes regularly on topics of patent law.
Career : Parallel to his studies Klaus Haft started specialising in intellectual property law and in particular in patent law in 1990, while interning at a patent agents firm. Since then, he continued his specialisation with several patent attorney firms, law firms as well as patent and legal departments of engineering companies in Germany, USA and UK. He is one of the founding partners of REIMANN OSTERRIETH KÖHLER HAFT founded in September 2004.
Personal : 1990 Universities of Wuerzburg/Munich; 1997 Diploma Degree in Physics, CERN/Munich.