Erich Hauser

Erich Otto Häußer (born June 9, 1930 in Markt Taschendorf ; † May 17, 1999 in Bad Tölz ) was a German lawyer.

Life

After graduating from AKG Schwabach, he passed a state examination in law at the University of Erlangen in 1953 and was admitted to the bar in 1957. From 1959 to 1963 he worked at the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice in Munich and from 1963 to 1965 at the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. He was then a judge at the Federal Patent Court in Munich until 1972 and then until 1975 a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. In 1974 he made his doctorate as Dr. jur. From 1976 to 1995 he was President of the German Patent Office in Munich. During his time as President, Erich Häußer repeatedly warned of Germany's technical deficits. After all, he worked from 1995 to 1999 as a lawyer at the law firm Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener in Munich.

From 1988 to 1991 he held a teaching position at the University of Konstanz , then until 1994 at the University of Saarbrücken . In 1990 he took an honorary professorship at the People's University of China in Beijing, and in 1991 an honorary professorship at the Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. From 1995 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising , 1996 to 1999 at the Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau and from 1997 to 1999 at the ETH Zurich .

Häusser was Chairman of the Board of the German Institute for Invention in Nuremberg, as well as President of the German Action Group Education - Invention - Innovation (DABEI) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Hans Sauer Foundation .

He received a large Federal Cross of Merit with a star, the Rudolf Diesel Medal in gold and a Bavarian medal for services to the Bavarian economy.

Quote

• "Anyone who does not invent disappears. Those who do not patent lose."

Web links

• Patent protection and venture capital: requirements for innovation