Dr. Leo Polz
Dipl.-Chem., German and European Patent Attorney
Specialisation
Chemical patents, with a particular focus on patent litigation, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European and German Patent Offices; patent prosecution, legal opinions and due diligence work. Particular expertise in the fields of biochemistry and biotechnology, pharmacology, cosmetics and paper chemistry. Litigation experience (among others) with patents involving Factor VIII, vaccines, cell cultures, PCR, screening methods and hormones.
Publications
Numerous lectures in Germany and abroad on patent law, particularly in the field of biotechnology.
Professional Memberships
Patent Attorney Bar Association, EPI, FICPI.
Career
Studied chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, graduated in 1985. Doctoral thesis in biochemistry in 1989. Research at the Chiba-University in Japan in the field of pharmaceutical biology until 1990; investigation on pharmaceutically active compounds from plant cell cultures, elucidation of the structure and biosynthetic routes of secondary metabolites from plants. With Hoffmann · Eitle since 1990; German and European Patent Attorney since 1994. Co-leader of Biotech Group since 2002.
Personal Information
Leisure interests include diving and wine.
Languages
German, English.
