Dr Hannes Burger

Hannes Burger is Managing partner of Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH and main owner of ABP Patent Network GmbH. He has been specialized in intellectual property rights for more than 25 years and is nationally and internationally active in IP prosecution as well as IP litigation. Over the past 12 months Hannes was deeply involved in the development of an AI application for reading and analyzing patents together with IBM. Hannes studied law at the University of Linz and is Austrian Attorney at Law in Austria, admitted to the bar in Munich, Germany (Europäischer Rechtsanwalt), as well as European Patent Attorney. This double qualification is quite rare in the Europe and especially in the German speaking countries, where only a handful of German speaking Attorneys at Law hold the qualification before the European Patent Office. As patent expert, Hannes headed IP software development projects and is the master mind behind the uptoIP IP management software and Patentbutler AI software tool. Hannes has a lot of experience in cross national IP litigation and enforcement, and advised clients in a wide range of industries, from mechanical engineering to medical devices, chemicals to biotech.