Dipl.-Ing. Frank Karl

I give advice to and represent clients who appreciate innovations and who need industrial property rights for complex inventions and with a broad scope of protection. Admissions for giving advice and representation in European and German patent law, trade mark and design law. Focus on patent law in the fields of electrical engineering, mechatronics and mechanics. German Patent Attorney since 1998. European Patent Attorney since 2002.

developing and protecting an innovative toy construction set system in a start-up company +++ developing the trade marks COMO® and COMO®+ +++ promoting creativity - COMO combine and modify +++ promoting free style bricking +++

drafting patent applications in German and English +++ special fields: electrical engineering, electronics, semiconductor technology +++ representing clients in European and German patent examination procedures +++ correspondence with attorneys in US, JP, KR, etc. +++ representing of clients of SME, e.g. in the fields of solar technics (Masdar PV), electric mobility (SET) and key board electronics (Ruling Tech.) +++ responsible for online-filing and electronic payment of annuity fees +++

preparing patent applications in the fields of telecommunications and semiconductor technology +++

preparing patent applications in the field of telecommunications +++ contributing to and participating at European and German opposition procedures and opposition appeal procedures +++

Theoretical Electrical Engineering +++ The use of cellular neural networks for the calculation of steady state electromagnetic fields +++