Edgar Lins

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

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)

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.

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