Dr Claus Dendorfer

Partner, German Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, Representative before the UPC, M Sc (Oxford)

Dr Claus Dendorfer studied law and computer science in Munich and Oxford. He holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford and a doctorate in computer science from the Technical University of Munich. He is one of relatively few Patent Attorneys in Germany to hold a university degree in computer science.
Dr. Dendorfer has been working in the field of Industrial Property Law since 1993. After training in a Munich firm, at the FernUniversität Hagen, at the German Patent and Trademark Office and at the European Patent Office, he was admitted as a Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney and European Trademark Attorney in 1997. In 2007, he was a founding partner of Dendorfer & Herrmann Patentanwälte Partnerschaft mbB. He joined the Keller Schneider team in October 2024.

Specialist for software patents

Dr Claus Dendorfer has decades of experience in the field of software patents. He recognized the possibilities of patent protection for Software at an early stage and was one of the first computer scientists in Germany to take up the profession of Patent Attorney. Since then, he has handled a large number of cases and knows the law and practice of software patents in detail.

Special fields

  • Software
  • Computer hardware
  • Information technology
  • Databases
  • Cryptography
  • Telecommunications
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2024 Joining Keller Schneider Patentanwalts GmbH
2007 Founding partner of the firm Dendorfer & Herrmann Patent Attorneys Partnerschaft mbB in Munich
1997 Admission as Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney and European Trademark Attorney
1993 - 1997 Trained as a Patent Attorney in a Munich firm, at the University of Hagen, at the German Patent and Trademark Office and at the Federal Patent Court in Munich
1990 - 1993 Research assistant at the Institute of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich; doctorate in 1995
1990 Master of Science in Computation from the University of Oxford

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