About
Rolf is partner of IP boutique law firm Freischem. The firm is managing about 4500 trademarks and 6500 patents and patent applications for mostly domestic medium sized clients in Germany.
His personal background is chemistry and nanotechnology. Before becoming a patent attorney, he received his Ph.D. from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering as well as the Chemistry Department, both at the State University of New York at Albany. Also, he worked for a small nanotechnology startup that was spun out of the Bayer group.
The focus of his practice is the prosecution of trademarks and patents. With the team at Freischem, he strives to be the external IP department for many medium sized companies.
Rolf has been included in the Patent 1000 rankings of the IAM magazine in 2013 and 2014. And he received confirmation that he also will be included in the WTR1000 ranking in 2015.
He is a prolific writer mostly writing for law journals such as GRUR or IP Rechtsberater. He is host of his two podcasts Markenpod and IP Fridays.
Rolf is also volunteering his time in the worldwide volunteer organization Junior Chamber International (JCI), where he currently serves as executive congress director for the JCI World Congress 2014 in Germany.
He enjoys spending at least the weekends with his three kids and his wife. Rolf wishes to have more time for hobbies like sailing.
Specialties: patents, trademarks, litigation, intellectual property due diligence, evaluation of patent portfolios, helping you to nationalize your patent in Europe or Germany and make use of it
Work history
Patent Attorneys Freischem, Partner, Patent Attorney, European Trademark Attorney
prosecution and litigation of patents, trademarks and designs in Germany and Europe; validity and infringement opinions; IP (intellectual property) due diligence
Patent Attorneys v. Kreisler Selting Werner, Partner, Patent Attorney
prosecution and litigation of patents and trademarks, oppositions, nullity suits
Patent Attorneys v. Kreisler Selting Werner, Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney
prosecution and litigation of patents, trademarks and designs in Germany and Europe; validity and infringement opinions; IP (intellectual property) due diligence
v. Kreisler Selting Werner, Trainee Patent Attorney
litigating and filing patents and trademarks, intellectual property due diligence
SuNyx Surface Nanotechnologies GmbH, Product Manager
product manager for glass coatings
SUNY, Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student at the College for Nanosciences and Engineering and at the Chemistry Department, developed CVD precursor molecules and a CVD process, characterized the obtained films with SEM, EAS, XPS, RBS, ...
