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Nora Wessendorf is a patent litigator specialising in forensic advice of international and national corporations in patent infringement proceedings. As a member of the Patents Technology & Life Sciences practice area, she advises clients in the fields of automotive and mechanical engineering, telecommunications, electronics, medical technology, digital health applications as well as pharmaceuticals and chemistry.
Since 2021 | Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing |
2019 – 2021 | Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing |
2016 – 2019 | Associate, Taylor Wessing |
2015 – 2016 | Attorney (admitted to the German bar), medium-sized law firm |
2013 – 2015 | Research assistant, Chair of Common Law and Comparative Jurisprudence, WWU Münster |
2011 – 2013 | Legal clerkship, Dusseldorf with posting in New York |
2019 | Admitted to the New York State Bar |
2016 | LL.M. (Intellectual Property Law), George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C. |
2016 | Dr. iur., Westfalian Wilhelms University Münster |
2015 | Admitted as a lawyer, Germany |
2013 | Second state examination, Dusseldorf |
2010 | First state examination, Hamm |
The America Invents Act’s impact on patent law harmonization in Germany and the US, June 2016 (dissertation) Know-how protection for technical inventions in the US. GRUR-Int 2013, p. 876 |
GRUR AIPPI New York State Bar Association WIN: Women in Intellectual Property Network |
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Patenting AI-generated inventions – is patent law acting the luddite?
The first 100 days of the UPC from a life sciences perspective – a very good message
by Dr. Anja Lunze, LL.M. and Dr. Nora E. Wessendorf, LL.M. (Washington)
SPC granting conditions under the recast SPC Regulation
How to prove your case before the Unified Patent Court
by multiple authors