DR. JAN B. KRAUSS Dipl.-Biol., Dr. rer.
nat., (German Patent Attorney, European Patent and Trade Mark Attorney)
earned his diploma in biology from the Freie Universität in Berlin, and his
doctorate for his work on the genetic basis of antibiotic resistance in
pathogenic bacteria at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics,
Berlin. Following his patent attorney trainee period in Berlin and Munich,
he worked in the biotechnology department of a large US-patent law firm in
Frankfurt am Main. His technical interests focus on all aspects of molecular
biology, immunology, plant genetics, biochemistry, pharmaceutics and
biotechnology. He is a member of the committee for biotechnology of the
Institute of German Patent Attorneys, a vice president of the Life Sciences
Committee of the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI), and a
guest lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, USA.
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