He has a doctorate on Kurt-Härtel Institute for Industrial Property Law to a patent law issue. After the first few years in a reputable patent law firm in the Rhineland, he became head of the legal department of a leading patent law firm in Bavaria. He has many years of experience in advising on the registration of trademarks and designs and the extrajudicial or judicial enforcement of intellectual property rights, competition and contract law claims. He is also specialized in the outline of licensing, research and development contracts. He is the author of numerous publications on patent, trademark and licensing law and holds a lectureship for trademark and media law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg as well as at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.