Frank Karl

He gives advice to and represents clients who appreciate innovations and who need industrial property rights of high quality and with a broad scope of protection. He has admissions for giving advice and the right to provide advice and representation in European and German patent law, trade mark and design law. Moreover, he is a UPC litigator. His focus is on patent law in the fields of electrical engineering, mechatronics and mechanics. He has been a German Patent Attorney since 1998 and a European Patent Attorney since 2002. He has a strong background in the following technological fields: In recent years, he dealt with medical devices such as PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) devices, autoinjectors, production of autoinjectors according to ISO standards and neurostimulation devices. Keyboard electronics: Drafting more than 10 applications for USB-related inventions and performing the corresponding prosecution in Europe as well as instructing attorneys in the US and Asia. Semiconductor technologies: Drafting more than one hundred applications and performing the prosecution in Europe, instructing US attorneys and attorneys in Asia, e.g. front-end technologies as well as power semiconductor electronics. Mobile communications: Drafting more than two hundred applications and performing the prosecution, e.g. in the fields of 2G, 3G and 4G technologies, IETF RFCs, e.g. the Viterbi algorithm. Computer -related inventions: Sound knowledge of source-code programming, e.g. in assembly. He built a mini computer from scratch, i.e. manufacturing a printed circuit board, programming the EEPROM with a BASIC interpreter, assembling the components on the PCB. Electronic circuitry, e.g. Doherty amplifiers, envelope tracker. Frank is able to deal with complex legal issues, e.g. eligibility (US patent law). Furthermore, Frank has a sound knowledge of SEPs (standard-essential patents) and FRAND. He is able to grasp the essence of international standards quickly, e.g. of standardization organizations such as 3GPP, ETSI, and ISO. Thus, he has dealt extensively with the USB standard, with Internet standards and with standards for codecs.