KARL-HEINZ
METTEN Dipl.-Chem. Dr. rer. nat., (German Patent Attorney, European
Patent and Trade Mark Attorney) studied chemistry and computer science at
the Universities of Bochum and Dortmund. He received his PhD in organic
chemistry focusing on stereoselective synthesis of drug targets and the
chemistry of saccharides. As a postdoctoral fellow he specialized in organometallic
chemistry at Imperial College, London (GB), and at the Chemistry Department
of the University of Cambridge (GB). After working as a patent attorney
trainee in a patent law firm in Hamburg he joined the patent and license
department of a major German chemical company where he practised for five
years mainly in the fields of engineering plastics (manufacture and applications)
as well as catalysts. He is still particularly interested in the above-mentioned
topics.
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