Senior Partner Stephan Kopp

Academic and professional career

University of Stuttgart
Studies of Aerospace Technology

Memberships

• AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
• BayPat (Bavarian Patent Attorney Association)
• Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• DJG (German-Japanese Society in Bavaria)
• EPI (European Patent Institute)
• EPLIT (European Patent Litigators Association)
• FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys)
• GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
• IZG (Interdisciplinary Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Mannheim)
• LES (Licensing Executives Society Germany)
• UNION (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property)
• VDI (Association of German Engineers)
• VPP (Association of Intellectual Property Experts)

Recommendation

"KUHNEN & WACKER is a nimble-footed boutique that plies its trade at the leading edge of patent law. Over the past 40 years it has refined its service so that rights holders receive unreservedly commercial support and around-the-clock attention at a price that makes sense. No application is deemed good to go until it is truly watertight and monetisation opportunities are pounced upon in double-quick time. Mechanical engineering ace Stephan Kopp is the first point of contact for interested parties." 
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