Career
He was Director of the International Section of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (French: Centre d"Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle or CEIPI), which is part of the University of Strasbourg, France, from 1992 to 2007. He is now working as an attorney-at-law with the firm Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler. He coauthored the 1200-page book "Singer/Stauder, The European Patent Convention, A Commentary, 2003", considered as an international reference book on the European Patent Convention.
He has published at least 100 academic papers.