Brief description

Dr. Michael Dittrich joined the law firm "Zwicker Schnappauf & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB" in 2021.

Dr. Dittrich is admitted to practice before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Federal Patent Court and the European Patent Office.

His main practice areas are the preparation of German, European and international patent applications and the prosecution of the corresponding patent applications in the fields of biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, genetics, physiology, electrophysiology and pharmaceutics. He also assists in opposition, infringement and nullity proceedings of German and European patents.

Dr. Dittrich studied biology and preclinical medicine (preliminary medical examination) at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. He received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin under Prof. Randolf Menzel in the field of neurobiology. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Philipps University Marburg with Prof. Jürgen Daut, University of Cologne with Prof. Jürgen Hescheler, and in Paris at INSERM Unit U-446 (Director Dr. Rodolphe Fischmeister) in the field of cardiovascular electrophysiology and signal transduction in endothelial cells, isolated cardiomyocytes, and embryoid bodies from embryonic stem cells.