Dr. Jörg Helbing,

born in 1962, 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 microbiology at the University of Göttingen and received the master's degree in Chemistry in 1987. His doctoral thesis was completed in 1990 and related to the chemical synthesis and modification of oligonucleotides. From 1990 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry of the University of California San Diego (UCSD). From 1991 to 1994 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 in the German Federal Patent Court. He qualified as a German Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney in 1995. He became a partner of the firm in 1996. 

He is member of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer), the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi), the Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys (Bundesverband Deutscher Patentanwälte e.V.), the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Right and Copyright (GRUR), the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) and the International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI). 

His special interests are chemistry, in particular organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and agricultural chemistry, biochemistry, the life-sciences, microbiology, molecular biology, plant variety species, medicinal science, physiology, immunology and medicinal and environmental technologies.