European Patent Attorney Associate

Professional Qualification

Dr. Thomas Wilk is admitted before the European Patent Office. He started his career in
intellectual property with a well respected patent law firm and was deputy head of the IP
department of a successful German pharmaceutical company. Dr. Thomas Wilk joined
our law firm in 2011.

Dr. Thomas Wilk’s practice puts particular emphasis on advising company strategies for
developing and implementing patent strategies that reflect the company’s business approach.

Dr. Thomas Wilk’s practices domestic and foreign patent portfolio development and
management in life sciences such as biotechnology, immunology, biochemistry, molecular
biology, pharmaceuticals, molecular diagnostics, genetics, cell biology, stem cell therapy,
virology and structural biology.

Thomas studied Biology at the Universities of Cologne, Basle and Heidelberg and prepared
his graduation thesis in the department of Prof. Harald zur Hausen at the German Cancer
Research Center (DKFZ). He then prepared his doctoral thesis in the department “Applied
Tumor Virology” of Prof. Lutz Gissmann at the DKFZ in Heidelberg. Subsequently, Thomas
spent several years at the department of structural biology of the European Laboratory for
Molecular Biology (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the University of Oxford.


Technical Expertise

Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Immunology, Structural Biology, Virology


Publications


Contact

thomas.wilk@vovo.de
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