Dr. Thomas Escher,

born in 1970, 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 at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bristol (UK) and received a master's degree in 1996. After receiving a doctorate in organic synthesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Heidelberg in 1999, he worked as a patent manager in the patent department of an international manufacturer of consumer products for four years, before beginning his training as a patent attorney in the firm in 2003. 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 European Patent Attorney in 2004 and as a German Patent Attorney in 2006. He became a partner of the firm in 2007. 

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 Right and Copyright (GRUR), the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), the International Federation of Industrial Property Attorneys (FICPI), and the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Additionally, he is a tutor of the Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (Center for International Industrial Property Studies, CEIPI) at Strassbourg where he lectures on European Patent law. 

His special interests are chemistry, in particular organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, life science, consumer goods, polymer chemistry, environmental and agricultural chemistry, electro chemistry, medicinal technology, chemical engineering and technology as well as biotechnology.