Heinz Goddar

Partner
Boehmert & Boehmert

He is a German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney with his office at Munich, as a partner of Boehmert & Boehmert. His technical background (as well as PhD degree) is in physics. He teaches Intellectual Property Law as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, as a Lecturer at the Bucerius Law School (BLS), Hamburg, and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany, and as a Visiting Professor as well as a Lecturer at several further universities in both Asia and U.S.A.. He is a Past-President of LES International and of LES Germany. He has received the Gold Medal of LESI in 2005 and has been inducted into the IAM IP Hall of Fame in 2014. For 2023 he has been listed, again, as belonging to IAM 300 Global Leading IP Experts. Since January 2023, together with Ms. Melanie Müller, Esq., he has been appointed as a co-editor of “Trade Secrets Throughout the World” (“TSTW”), in succession of late Melvin J.Jager, fulfilling his legacy. Since September 2023 he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Saudi Authority of Intellectual Property (SAIP). Furthermore since October 2025, he is a member of the mediator body of the CCPIT Mediation/Arbitration Center for Intellectual Property and has been appointed in October 2024 as an International Advisor for LES Korea.