Andreas Vogel is a patent attorney and equity partner at Bals & Vogel in Bochum/Munich, an IP law firm specialising in IP litigation/prosecution in Germany.Andreas Vogel has more than 20 years’ experience as a patent attorney, during which he has successfully litigated/prosecuted a large number of patent cases. He benefits from his broad experience in drafting patent applications and conducting grant proceedings. His technical specialties are: Mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, process engineering, optics, telecommunication, IOT, AI, machine learning.He represents clients before the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court, the EPO, the EUIPO and the WIPO.Andreas Vogel joined the law firm Bals & Vogel as an equity partner in 2005. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and leads the Software (AI), Litigation and International department. He has wide-ranging expertise of IP due diligence and IP monetization on the basis of DIN77100. Andreas Vogel is a Member of Examination Committee III of the European Patent Office for the European Qualifying Examination (EQE) and Lecturer at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the field of Intellectual Property.He has been working on the topic of Unitary Patents for several years now. He is currently giving numerous presentations nationally and internationally. He has obtained the European Patent Litigator qualification according to Art. 48 (2) UPC at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.