Ingo Kober

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Ingo Kober (born July 22, 1942 in Liegnitz , now Legnica in Poland ) was the third President of the European Patent Office and State Secretary of Justice under Federal Ministers Klaus Kinkel and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (1991-1995).

After studying law and completing his legal clerkship (1972), Ingo Kober began working as a public prosecutor and judge in Mannheim and Tauberbischofsheim . In 1975 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Justice , where he worked until 1982. After a brief break as a legal policy advisor for the FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, he returned to the ministry in November 1982 as head of the Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs department under Justice Minister Hans A. Engelhard. Later he was responsible for the subdivision Personnel and Organization (1985) and for the Department of Justice Administration (1986).

Ingo Kober was appointed State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice in January 1991, succeeding Klaus Kinkel, and held this position until December 31, 1995. From January 1996 he became the third president of the European Patent Office. From 1987 to 1991 he represented the Federal Republic of Germany as head of the German delegation on the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organization . After two terms in office, Kober gave the presidency to the French Alain Pompidou in 2004. In 2000, Kober was elected President of the Board of Directors of the “Center d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle (CEIPI)”, a section of the Robert Schuman University . He held this office until 2009.

In addition to his academic degree as a lawyer, Kober also holds a Magister Artium (MA) in literary studies and philosophy. Kober speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. Ingo Kober is married to the judge at the Federal Court of Justice Helga Kober-Dehm and is the father of radio presenter Simon Kober.

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  • Ingo Kober, President of the European Patent Office, in conversation with Klaus-Joachim Jenssen , Bayerischer Rundfunk , broadcast on March 6, 1998 ( PDF )

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Curriculum vitae of Ingo Kober ( Memento from June 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ CEIPI News ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , epi Information 1/2007, March 2007, pp. 10-12.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 216.92.57.242
  3. ↑ Christophe Geiger and Ingo Kober, chevaliers de l'Ordre des palmes académiques. In: Lettre d'information du CEIPI n ° 35. Center d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle, July 26, 2016, accessed on December 20, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Kober, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Secretary, third President of the European Patent Office
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz