

Niels Tobias Elzenheimer
Graduate Engineer (FH) Patent Engineering, M.Sc. (TU) Mechanical Engineering
German Patent Attorney (Patentanwalt), European Patent Attorney
In Employment
As an engineer, I am used to determinedly look for solutions.
Technical expertise
- Mechanical Engineering
- Production and systems engineering
- Automotive engineering
- Machine tools
- Firefighting technology
- Tractor and agricultural machinery technology
- Thin films and surface engineering
- Vapor deposition processes (PVD, CVD, PACVD)
- Tribology
Legal expertise
- Patent and utiliy model applications
- Patent grant procedures
- Opposition proceedings
- Nullity proceedings
- Patent infringement proceedings
- Law of employee inventions
- License agreements
- Patent strategy advice
- Design law
Professional career
- Studies of patent engineering in Amberg-Weiden
- Practical semester in a patent law firm in Valencia, Spain
- Studies of mechanical engineering in Braunschweig
- Activity as patent engineer from 2010 to 2013
- From 2016 to 2021 employed at MEHLER ACHLER Patentanwälte
- Since 2021 employed at WSL
- Patent attorney since 2022