Speakers

Friedemann Horn

European Patent Attorney

Friedemann has been active in the field of intellectual property for over 20 years, in which he has translated, checked and prosecuted thousands of patent applications. He started his career as an electrical engineer and in-house translator for a Japanese patent law firm. Friedemann is the founder of Horn & Uchida Patent Translations Ltd., a translation house located in Osaka that specializes in the translation of patent applications between Japanese and English, and a founding partner of Horn Kleimann Waitzhofer Patent Attorneys, a patent law firm based in Munich. Today, Friedemann divides his time between patent translation work at Horn & Uchida and patent prosecution at Horn Kleimann Waitzhofer, where his main focus is on representing Japanese clients before the European Patent Office. This often involves improving translations and thinking about the meaning of words.

Sessions

Patent Law for Patent Translators

Translators and patent attorneys tend to view patent translations through different eyes. This session takes a look at how patent applications are read by patent attorneys (and patent examiners). For this, we will look at the importance of the claims, as well as some important...

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