Dr. iur. Dieter Stauder is a German

Germany

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 attorney-at-law

Lawyer

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 and an expert in intellectual property law

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

. He was Director of the International Section of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies

Centre for International Industrial Property Studies

The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies, or Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle in French , is a Strasbourg, France-based training centre for specialists in intellectual...

 ( or CEIPI), which is part of the University of Strasbourg

University of Strasbourg

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, France

France

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, from 1992 to 2007. From 1992 to 2005, he was member of the European Patent Office

European Patent Organisation

The European Patent Organisation is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention of 1973...

. 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

European Patent Convention

The Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, commonly known as the European Patent Convention , is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to which European patents are granted...

. He has published at least 100 academic papers.

External links

• Dieter Stauder at Bardehle Pagenberg
• Dieter Stauder at the European Intellectual Property Institutes Network
  European Intellectual Property Institutes Network
  The European Intellectual Property Institutes Network is a cooperation network of intellectual property institutions, organizing conferences. It was founded in 1999. Its aim is "to facilitate and increase cooperation among IP institutions and students in Europe"...
  
  (EIPIN) (archived page, October 12, 2007)