Member
Qualification
Dr. FABER advises national and international clients in all proceedings
concerning the application, defence and enforcement of patents, utility models,
trade marks and design rights. His technical focus is on mechanical engineering
and process engineering. Furthermore, he supports and advises clients in
questions concerning employee inventions and in the development of effective filing strategies.
After his studies in general mechanical engineering with a specialisation in
process engineering at the Technical University of Munich with a focus on
bioprocess engineering, he completed his doctorate in the field of industrial
protein crystallisation at the Technical University of Denmark and the
University of Delaware, USA, in 2006.
He then completed his patent law training at a renowned patent and law firm
in Bremen, at the Patent Litigation Chamber of the Mannheim District Court, as
well as at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent
Court, accompanied by a general law course "Law for Patent Attorneys" at the
Open University of Hagen. In 2009, he joined a patent law firm in Wiesbaden,
of which he became a partner in 2013. He also completed a Master's degree
(LL.M.) at the Distance Learning University of Hagen in "European Intellectual
Property Law", which he completed in the same year. In 2016, he joined a
patent law firm in southwest Germany, of which he became a partner in 2020.
Since the beginning of 2022, Dr. FABER has continued the firm together with
patent attorney Dr. BAYER under the name WALTHER PATENT.