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| Education and professional experience: | |
| Studies in electrical engineering and data processing at the Technical University of Stuttgart. | |
| 1972 | Trainee in a system engineer group of Fujitsu in Tokyo for two months |
| 1972 - 1974 | Employed by Siemens in the computer division |
| 1975 - 1977 | Patent attorney's candidate with the patent firm Glawe, Delfs, Moll & Partner |
| 1977 - 1978 | Education at the German Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court and the Civil Court in Munich (Patent Court) |
| 1978 | Establishment of this firm |
| Main activities: | |
| Jürgen Betten focuses his practice on trademarks and patents (electronics, information and communication technology, including software protection), and software protection in general. In this respect, Jürgen Betten is considered to be one of the leading European experts regarding the patent protection of computer software and rendered expert opinions, e.g., with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the German Ministry of Justice. | |
| Further activities: | |
| Member of FICPI Trademark Group (CET) Member of the Trademark and Unfair Competition Commission of GRUR Member of the Committees Q 132 (Computer Software, Information Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Circuits) and Q 133 (Patenting of Computer Software) of AIPPI President of the Computer Software Commission of UNION, 1990 – 2005 Chairman of the Computer Software Commission of the German Patent Attorneys' Institute, 1982 – 1995 Member of the Advisory Board of the German journal "COMPUTER UND RECHT" ("Computer and Law"). | |
| Many publications, especially in the field of software protection and trademarks. | |
| Languages: | |
| German, English, French, some knowledge of Japanese. | |
