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Professional Qualification

Dr. Georg Schnappauf is partner with the Patent and Law Firm of Dr. Volker Vossius. He joined
Dr. Volker Vossius in 1998.

Georg is admitted before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the Office
for Harmonization in the Internal Market, and the European Patent Office. He has successfully handled numerous
patent applications, oppositions, nullity, and opinion matters in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology,
chemistry, and medicine on behalf of our national and international clients. Georg is representing well known
European, US, and Japanese companies.

Georg finished his studies of Biology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany,
with a Diploma thesis at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Department of Microbiology in Zurich,
Switzerland. Georg made his Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University
in Göttingen, Germany, and the Institute of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-
University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Part of his Ph.D. work was done in cooperation with the 1976
Nobel Price winner in chemistry, William N. Lipscomb, from Harvard University, USA. Georg was a visiting
scientist at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, USA and the Department of Molecular and Cell
Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Department of Cell Biology, Zurich, Switzerland.