Agile meets IP

Christian is a leading IP manager and strategist with more than 18 years of IP leadership experience. After studying biochemistry, molecular biology and law in Heidelberg, he took his PhD at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute for Virology, at the Genecenter of the LMU in Munich. After his education in a boutique patent law firm in Munich, he became German and European Patent Attorney. Through his journey he was able to counsel companies of different sizes and business models and within different industries, among those drug discovery and generic pharma companies, as well as companies in the medical device and chemical industry, from the large corporate to various start-ups. He entered the Electrolux Group in 2016 and was until recently head of patents of the German patent department, as well as leading the global IP team of about 45 people ad interim. Christian founded and joined Tergau & Walkehorst Intellectual Property GmbH as managing equity partner in October 2023. His superpower is that Christian is in addition a certified innovation manager (TÜV) and Scrum Master (CSM). His focus is the agile enablement and development of a sustainable and value-oriented patent organization and strategy. Christian has driven the organisational transformation of IP teams into agile IP rocket teams embracing equality and diversity. Application of agile project development methods and mindsets paved the way for cross-functional IP management, an agile IP organization and negotiation teams under his leadership.

Tore entered the Electrolux Group in 2009 and currently is head of patents of the Swedish patent department. Tore is a European Patent Attorney, a certified innovation manager (TÜV), Scrum Master and AI product manager. He has more than 22 years experience in the IP field, in leading positions with experience from the finance and software industry as well as appliance industry. He has extensive international experience lived and worked long times abroad working in highly complex projects and negotiations involving different technologies and multiple legal areas. Tore's focus is the agile enablement and development of a sustainable and value-oriented patent organization and strategy. A special focus and interest for Tore is to drive the digitalization of the Patent department to become truly data driven. Tore has, together with Christian, driven the organisational transformation of IP teams into agile IP rocket teams.