CHRISTIAN APPELT Dipl.-Phys. (German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney) studied physics majoring in Solid State Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He specialised in semiconductor and photovoltaic technology. During a 2 year stay in Japan he studied Japanese at the "Tokyo School of the Japanese Language" for a year and worked for a further year, first with a patent attorneys office in Osaka, then with the Patent Department of Ebara Corporation and with the Intellectual Property Department of Sony Corporation in Tokyo.

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