Dr. Thomas
Müller, LL.M.
- Diploma in agricultural engineering
- State-cetrified specialist for distilleries
- Distiller
- Patent Attorney
- European Patent Attorney
- Representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
- European Trademark Attorney
- European Design Attorney
- Partner
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Since 2023Representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
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Since 2017Awarded with the Golden Badge of Honour of the Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
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Till 2014Master’s degree: European Intellectual Property Law at the Kurt-Haertel Institute for Intellectual Property, Fern University Hagen
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Till 2014Master’s thesis at the Kurt-Haertel Institute for Intellectual Property, Fern University Hagen - “The use of streaming services in German and US American copyright law”
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Since 2008Board member and treasurer of the district group South-West of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright e.V.
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Since 2007Lecturer at the Hochschule Esslingen in the area of the legal protection of industrial property rights
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Since 2003Partner of the patent law firm Patentanwälte Schuster, Müller & Partner
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Till 2003Setting up and heading the patent attorney’s office Patentanwalt Müller, Ostfildern
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Till 2002Patent attorney training
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Till 1999Scientific worker at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Dijon, France
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Till 1997Thesis at the State Teaching and Research Institute for Agriculture, Viticulture and Horticulture - “Volatilization of pesticides from unvegetated soils and plant surfaces”
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Till 1996Postgraduate course in phytomedicine at the University of Hohenheim
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Till 1993Degree course in general agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim
- Patent law
- Utility model law
- Trademark law and
indications of geographical origin - Design law
- Topography
- Protection of species
- Employee invention law
- Patent strategies
- Licence negotiations
- German Patent Attorneys´ Bar Association
- German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
- Board member and treasurer of the Southwest Regional Group of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
- Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI)
- International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
- Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys (BDPA)
- European Patent Litigators Association (EPLIT)
- Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP)
- The German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health r.S. (DPG)
- The German Agricultural Society r.S. (DLG)
- Lecturer in the master’s degree course in innovation management at the Hochschule Esslingen in the field of the legal protection of industrial property rights