Nils T. F. Schmid

Nils T.F. Schmid specializes in traditional as well as digital mechanical engineering including artificial intelligence, his particular interest being in the areas of motor vehicles, tool engineering, process engineering, textile technologies, and medical technology. For his clients, especially medium-sized companies in Germany/Europe as well as Asian and American corporations, he develops European and global patent and design strategies and sees to their implementation with regard to the sustainably successful management of patent and design patent portfolios.

Key areas of his work include infringement and nullity disputes regarding patents, utility models, and designs as well the detection of protectable innovations and the establishment and counseling of in house IP departments, including advising on all aspects of the German employee inventor law.

Nils T. F. Schmid studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) with an emphasis on materials science and technical mechanics. He qualified as an engineer in 1997. At the same time, he acquired a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) in Paris in the area of development and manufacturing of motor vehicle bodies. In 1997, Nils T. F. Schmid started his studies to become patent attorney. Since 2001, Nils T. F. Schmid has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT as a German patent attorney and European patent and trademark attorney. Further, he is the location representative at the Paris office of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in France and international managing partner of the law firm.

Nils T. F. Schmid lectures at the Université de Strasbourg (CEIPI seminars), preparing candidates for the admission examination to qualify as a European patent attorney (EQE) (European Qualifying Examination) and regularly holds further education seminars for the European Patent Academy of the EPO to prepare examiners for the EQE.

He is a member of UNION-IP (European Practitioners in Intellectual Property) and served as Vice-President of the UNION-IP Board from 2007 to 2013. Nils T. F. Schmid led UNION-IP as President from 2013 to 2015, and was Past-President from 2015 to 2017. Nils T.F. Schmid is honorary president by UNION-IP delegates since October 2017. He is also President of the Statutes Commission.

In addition, he is a member of the “Innovations” Committee and the Senate of the BWA (Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade, Bundesverband für Wirtschaftsförderung und Außenwirtschaft), a consultancy group of experts which advices the German government on questions of research, economy and innovation.