Heidelberg Licensing Spring Course

Uli is a German qualified lawyer and certified IP specialist working as legal counsel for Bosch's corporate legal department. He is the responsible legal IP expert for one of Bosch's automotive business divisions with a focus on drafting and negotiating license and development agreements as well as respective templates and providing strategic advice on IP matters. Prior to joining Bosch, he worked in private practice for a renowned large law firm and an IP boutique. Uli is the presiding member of the examination board for certified IP specialist of the Stuttgart bar association.
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Christian W. Appelt is active in the IP area since 1995. Besides his professional career in Europe, he worked in Japan for two years for a patent law firm in Osaka, in the patent department of Ebara Corporation, and in the IP department of Sony Corporation in Tokyo. He is focused on counseling of SMEs in Germany and Europe in all aspects of Intellectual Property and on representing and advising large, internationally active companies, especially from Japan, China, and the US. Christian regularly teaches intellectual property law, especially at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) in Tokyo and at Osaka University (Intellectual Property Center, IPrism). Since 2004, he is an assistant professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Kiel, Germany. He is a member of the Board of the German chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) since 2010, acting as President from 2018 to 2020.