Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Meyers,

born in 1955, is qualified as a German Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney and is admitted to the European Community Trademark Office in Alicante (OHIM). 

He studied chemistry and biology at the University of the City of Münster and received a master's degree in chemistry 1979. His doctoral thesis was completed in 1981 and related to the synthesis of radioactive labeled molecules for tracer experiments. From 1982 to 1985 he was a researcher at the Institute for Molecular Physiology of the Max-Planck-Society and worked on several biochemical, neurophysiological and molecular biology projects (structure and function of the acetylcholine receptor). From 1985 to 1989 he was a trainee at the firm. He continued his education at the Lower District Court in Düsseldorf, the German Patent and Trademark Office, and the German Federal Patent Court. He qualified as a German Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. He became a partner of the firm in 1991. 

He is member of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer), the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi), the German association for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright (GRUR), the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the International Association for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright (AIPPI), and the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI). He has presented several lectures relating to Intellectual Property to the European Commission DG XII and XIII, Brussels, and was teaching at the University of the City of Dortmund. 

His special interests are organic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, the life sciences, molecular biology and evolutionary processes, medical sciences, physiology, and environmental technologies.