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About Holger Tostmann
About Dr. Holger Tostmann
Dr. Holger Tostmann has been a partner at Wallinger Ricker Schlotter Tostmann since 2008. Dr. Tostmann holds a doctorate in chemistry with a long career in the U.S. and has been admitted as a German Patent Attorney and as a European Patent Attorney since 2004 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Tostmann specializes in patent prosecution with an international focus as well as in opposition (appeal) proceedings, in which Dr. Tostmann has well above-average experience and success rates.
Dr. Tostmann’s expertise in intellectual property law includes, in particular, attacking and defending granted patents in opposition proceedings (European Patent Office), also at the level of the Boards of Appeal. Furthermore, Dr. Tostmann regularly prepares opinions on intellectual property rights, such as validity analyses, freedom to operate opinions, legal opinions, infringement opinions, as well as “due diligence” opinions, also for IP rights with “cross-border” implications.
In particular, Dr. Tostmann regularly deals with all aspects of the “day-to-day” prosecution and maintenance of intellectual property rights (patents, utility models, designs), both in national (German Patent and Trademark Office) and in supranational proceedings (European Patent Office, WIPO). Dr. Tostmann also has extensive experience in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and in U.S. related proceedings in general.
Dr. Tostmann provides overarching advice with regard to sensible patent portfolio management, which maps technical expertise and legal experience to the clients’ business interests.
Dr. Tostmann is active in various AIPLA committees in the U.S., particularly in the areas of chemistry and biotechnology. He also regularly lectures on patent law topics at the annual conferences of the American Chemical Society.
Fields of law
Patent law
Sectors
Green Technologies
Materials science
Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Holger Tostmann
WALLINGER RICKER SCHLOTTER TOSTMANN
Zweibrückenstraße 5-7
80331 Munich
Germany
+49892102320
htostmann@wallinger.com
3 Specialisms
- Materials
- Chemistry
- Pharmaceuticals
Publications
- H. Tostmann and W. Freyland, Rapid Solidification of Microemulsions of Liquid Alloys in Molten Salts, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 156-158, 551 (1993)
- H. Tostmann, D. Nattland and W. Freyland, Wetting and Prewetting Transition in Metallic Fluid K-KCl Solutions Studied by Second Harmonic Generation, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 8777 (1996)
- H. Tostmann, E. DiMasi, P.S. Pershan, B.M. Ocko, O.G. Shpyrko and M. Deutsch, Surface Structure of Liquid Metals and the Effect of Capillary Waves: X-ray Studies on Liquid Indium, Phys. Rev. B 59, 783 (1999)
- H. Tostmann, E. DiMasi, O.G. Shpyrko, P.S. Pershan, B.M. Ocko and M. Deutsch, Microscopic Structure of the Wetting Film at the Surface of Liquid Ga-Bi Alloys, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4385 (2000)
- T. Shibata, H. Tostmann, B. Bunker, A. Henglein and D. Meisel, XAFS Studies of Gold and Silver-Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution, J. Synchr. Radiation 8, 545 (2001)
- H. Tostmann, A.J. Kropf, C.S. Johnson, J.T. Vaughey and M. Thackeray, In-Situ X-Ray Absorption Studies of Electrochemically Induced Phase Changes in Lithiated InSb, Phys. Rev. B 66, 14106 (2002)
- H. Tostmann, Protecting Chemistry Inventions: The Double-Edged Sword of Being an Unpredictable Art, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 6, 364–366 (2015)
