About Me

  • Robert Wessel, born in 1970
  • Mechanical Engineer (Dipl.-Ing. (FH)), Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
  • Over 12 years of experience as product development engineer (design engineer, project leader, group leader) for large-scale production in companies specializing in vehicle components and medical devices
  • On the job training in patent related topics; intensive studying of third party patents; filing of multiple in-house patents as inventor; continuous colaboration with patent attorneys and external researchers
  • Since 2009 freelance engineering services for product development (concept reviews, technology research, patent research)
  • Since 2013 provider of monthly patent landscape analysis (monitoring newly published applications, analysing functional operation and claim scope, creating abstracts for relevant applications, processing search result in individually created database)
  • Since 2017 patent research for patent attorneys / patent law firms (prior art research, research to provide novelty counter-arguments)
  • Languages: German (mother tongue), English (business-level speaking, reading and writing)