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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