Jochen Hilleringmann,

born in 1959, 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 electrical and mechanical engineering at the University of Bochum and received his master's degree in engineering in 1985. From 1985 to 1988 he was a trainee at the firm. He continued his education at the District Court of Düsseldorf, the German Patent and Trademark Office and the German Federal Patent Court. In 1989 he qualified as a German and European Patent Attorney. He became a partner of the firm in 1990. 

He is member of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer) and its sub-section dealing with software-matters, 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). He is also involved in educating candidates on behalf of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys. 

His special interests are electrical and mechanical engineering, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing technology, information technology and protection of software by patents.