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Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar
He is a German European Patent Attorney, with his office at Munich, as a partner of Boehmert & Boehmert. He holds a PhD in physics and teaches Intellectual Property Law as Honorary Professor at University of Bremen, Germany, as Lecturer at Bucerius Law School (BLS), Hamburg, and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany. He is furthermore a Visiting Professor as well as a Lecturer at several foreign universities in both Asia and U.S.A. He is a Past-President of LES International (LESI) and of LES Germany. Gold Medallist of LESI 2005, inducted into the IAM IP Hall of Fame 2014. He is listed as one of IAM 300 Global Leading IP Experts for several years. Together with Melanie Müller since 2023 co-editor of “Trade Secrets Throughout the World” (“TSTW”, i.e. ISBN 978-1-731-95271-4). Since 2006 he is a member of the WIPO list of mediators and arbitrators. Since 09/2023 member of the Advisory Board of Saudi Authority of Intellectual Property (SAIP). Since 04/2024 Honorary Advisor of LES Korea, since 08/2024 member of the Intellectual Property committee of CCPIT Mediation Center, Beijing (PRC).
Further Information: goddar@boehmert; http://www.boehmert.de

From Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar
Trade Secrets As Supplement To Patent Protection
Trade Secrets As Supplement To Patent Protection1 While complementary trade secret protection offers competitive advantages that extend far beyond the limited term of a patent, it complicates...
Access by Improvement To Patented Technologies
Possibly, such "Opening Clauses" would not only be useful in heavily patented areas like telecommunication to get enforced access to SEP-surrounded innovations but also in pharma developments to achieve access and thereby licenses under first-medical-use patents by improvers