Dr. Michael Behmke
Dr. rer. nat., Dipl.-Phys.
German Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney

Technical areas of expertise:

• Laser systems
• Optical technology
• Pumping systems
• Telecommunications
• Thin-film processing

Legal activities:

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

Biography:

• Dr. Michael Behmke has been working as a patent attorney for Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling since March 2019.
• Until then he worked for the patent law firm Cohausz Hannig Borkowski Wißgott where he mainly gained experience in patent prosecution and opposition proceedings.
• Before his education as a patent attorney, he was responsible in an industrial corporation’s development department for the development of laser processes in thin-film processing and for the installation of laser systems.
• He received his doctorate in the field of ultrashort pulse laser physics at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf.
• He studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

Publications (selection):

• High repetition rate plasma mirror for temporal contrast enhancement of terawatt femtosecond laser pulses by three orders of magnitude. Applied Physics 8 103(2): 295-302 (2011)
• Controlling the Spacing of Attosecond Pulse Trains from Relativistic Surface Plasmas. Physical Review Letters 106(18): 185002 (2011)
• Particle and X-ray generation by irradiation of gaseous and solid targets with a lOO TW laser pulse. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 51{12}: 124049 (2009)

Memberships:

• Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• FICPI – International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
• German Physics Society

Languages:

German, English

Education (excerpt):

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Friedrich Schiller University Jena