Dr. Thomas Weber,

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 chemistry at the Technical University of Stuttgart and received a master's degree in 1984. His doctoral thesis was completed in 1986 and related to stereochemical influences in organic synthesis. From 1987 to 1988 he was a post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation at the University of Southern California (USC) at Los Angeles, under Nobel laureate (1994) Prof. G. A. Olah. From 1988 to 1991 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 in 1992 and as a European Patent Attorney in 1993. He became a partner of the firm in 1993. 

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) and its Intellectual Property sub-section. He is member of the Executive Board of the Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys (Bundesverband Deutscher Patentanwälte, e.V.). Additionally, he is a tutor of the Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle, CEIPI (Center for International Industrial Property Studies), at Strassbourg where he lectures on European Patent law. 

His special interests are chemistry, in particular organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, environmental and agricultural chemistry, medicinal technology as well as chemical engineering and technology.