Dr. Dirk Müssig

Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Phys. (Univ.)
German Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney

Technical areas of expertise:

• Plasma physics
• Laser systems
• Optical Technology
• Biophysics
• Medical physics
• Telecommunications
• Computer-implemented inventions

Legal activities:

• Patent prosecution, opposition and appeal proceedings before the DPMA and EPO.

Biography:

• Dr. Dirk Müssig has been working as a patent attorney for Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling since October 2019.
• Prior to this, he was a patent attorney trainee at Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling and Bonnekamp & Sparing, where he mainly gained experience in patent prosecution and opposition proceedings.
• Dr. Müssig also spent part of his training as a patent attorney at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court at the Senate of Dr. Kühnen and Dr. Voß for intellectual property disputes.
• Prior to his training as a patent attorney, Dr. Müssig worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry on the statistical evaluation of medication studies and the market access of medication.
• He completed his doctorate in medical physics in the field of tumor therapy with heavy ions at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research.
• He studied physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Publications (selection):

• Re-scanning in scanned ion beam therapy in the presence of organ motion (Dissertation); https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/3858

Inventions (selection):

• DE 10 2012 1123 48 B4

Memberships:

• Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• German Physical Society

Languages:

German, English, French

Training (excerpt):

TU Darmstadt