Edgar Lins

Edgar Lins

Dipl.-Phys., Dr. jur.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

until 2019: Patent Attorney
European Patent Attorney
European Trademark & Design Attorney

OFFICE BRUNSWICK

Phone +49(0)531  28140-0
Fax +49(0)531 28140-28

Main practice areas
  • Patent and utility model applications, in particular in the fields of electronics, physics, medical engineering and technology, process engineering, packaging technology
  • Trademark law, with a special focus on international trademark law, trademark strategies, design law
  • Patent, utility model, design and trademark infringement disputes
  • Expert opinions on infringement matters
  • Ancillary protection under competition law
  • License agreements
  • Laws on employees’ inventions
Professional career
1992 Dissertation on ‘The priority right for subsequent applications with amended contents’ Dr. jur. (Department of Law at the University of Hannover)
1978 Qualified as a European patent attorney
1978 Founding partner of the joint practice Gramm + Lins
1977 Joined the law firm
1977 Qualified as a patent attorney
1976 to 1977 Consultant at the Patents Department of Blaupunkt-Werke (Bosch Group)
1973 to 1976 Trainee as a Patentassessor at the Patents Department of Blaupunkt-Werke (Bosch Group), at the German Patent Office, German Federal Patent Court, and Munich I Regional Court
1972 to 1973 Development of measuring instruments at GEOME Geomessdienst R. Frommholz KG
1972 Degree in physics (Technical University of Hannover)
Memberships
  • Federation of German Patent Attorneys
  • ECTA
  • GRUR (Deputy Chairman of GRUR Northern Committee)
  • AIPPI National Group
  • Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW)
  • VPP
  • VDI
  • FICPI
  • LES
Lecturing
  • Lecturer at the German Lawyers’ Academy (international trademark law)
  • Lecturer at Braunschweig Technical University (protection of intellectual property)
Publications
  • Lins: "Die Rechtsprechung zur Teilpriorität – Konflikt zwischen Dogma und Praxis?" (Court rulings on partial priority - conflict between dogma and practice?) in: Festschrift für Günther Eisenführ, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Munich 2003
  • Lins: "Das Prioritätsrecht für inhaltlich geänderte Nachmeldungen" (The priority right for subsequent applications with amended contents), Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna 1992 (dissertation)
  • Keil / Lins / Richter / Ruff / Witte / Zellentin: "Das Grünbuch über den rechtlichen Schutz gewerblicher Muster und Modelle der Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften" (The green book on the legal protection of industrial designs and models of the Commission of the European Communities), in: Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte, 1992, p. 137 ff.
  • Keil / Lins / Richter / Ruff / Witte / Zellentin: "Die Musteranmeldeverordnung und die derzeitige Rechtslage im Eintragungsverfahren von Geschmacksmusteranmeldungen" (The ordinance on design and utility model applications and the current legal situation in the registration procedure for design applications), in: Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte, 1992, p. 21 ff.
  • Lins, Rau "Patentstrategien für den EG-Binnenmarkt" (Patent strategies for the Single European Market), in: Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte, issue 6, 1990, p. 114-119
  • Lins, Gramm "Ein Anspruch – eine Priorität" (One claim - one priority), in: GRUR Int. 1983, 634 ff.
Languages

German, English, French