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Peo­ple be­hind TIPAG

 

Bern­hard
Mo­erk­er

Founder & CEO

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Over 25 years of man­age­ment ex­pe­ri­ence, in­clud­ing roles as Busi­ness Unit Manager

  • More than 15 years as Gen­er­al Manager

  • Non‑executive di­rec­tor in sev­er­al companies

  • Ex­ten­sive lead­er­ship ex­pe­ri­ence in:

    • Process en­gi­neer­ing

    • Plas­tics and alu­mini­um processing

    • In­dus­tri­al met­al processing

    • Cof­fee and pro­fes­sion­al cof­fee ma­chine technology

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • Co‑founder of TIPAG GmbH

  • Mo­ti­va­tion: pro­vid­ing clients with out­stand­ing tal­ent in the field of in­tel­lec­tu­al property

  • Strong aware­ness of the grow­ing im­por­tance of IP in a rapid­ly chang­ing, dig­i­talised society

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • De­gree in Me­chan­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing (Dipl. Ing. FH)

  • Ex­ec­u­tive MBA HSG, Uni­ver­si­ty of St. Gallen

Net­work & Volunteering
  • Over 20 years Pres­i­dent of the Alum­ni Ex­ec­u­tive MBA HSG

  • Board mem­ber of Alum­ni HSG

Tony
Keller

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Long‑standing R&D en­gi­neer and sci­en­tist with a strong “out‑of‑the‑box thinker” mindset

  • Deep ex­per­tise in cir­cuit de­sign and analysis

  • Ex­cel­lent knowl­edge of pow­er electronics

  • Over 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence as a patent an­a­lyst and re­verse engineer

  • Broad ex­per­tise in circuit‑related patents, including:

    • Pow­er supplies

    • Video, au­dio, and data transmission

    • Sen­sors

    • User in­ter­faces

    • Codec stan­dards

    • Me­chan­i­cal structures

    • Re­verse analy­sis of in­te­grat­ed cir­cuits (ICs)

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • In­ven­tor of 31 grant­ed patent fam­i­lies and 83 patent applications

  • In­volved in nu­mer­ous large patent port­fo­lio analyses

  • Se­lec­tion and eval­u­a­tion of high‑value patents for fur­ther development

  • Long‑term par­tic­i­pa­tion in claim‑review com­mit­tees (fil­ing, amend­ment, withdrawal)

  • Ac­tive in­ven­tor across many tech­ni­cal fields, im­prov­ing patent ap­pli­ca­tions through­out the process

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • MSc in Sig­nal Pro­cess­ing, Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy & High Fre­quen­cy En­gi­neer­ing (ETH Zurich)

  • Post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in Man­age­ment & Lead­er­ship and in Ed­u­ca­tion

Net­work & Volunteering
  • Part‑time lec­tur­er at a uni­ver­si­ty of ap­plied sci­ences for elec­tron­ics, patents, and innovation

Luc
Tri­pod

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Long‑standing ex­pe­ri­ence in prepar­ing patent in­fringe­ment evidence

  • Tech­ni­cal ex­pert in patent li­cens­ing discussions

  • Many years of reverse‑engineering ex­pe­ri­ence in:

    • Pow­er supplies

    • Con­sumer electronics

    • Com­mu­ni­ca­tion products

  • Deep knowl­edge of broad­cast­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dards, including:

    • DVB

    • H.264

    • WiFi

    • Blue­tooth

    • DOCSIS

    • DSL

    • Ad­di­tion­al trans­mis­sion standards

  • Ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence as de­vel­op­ment en­gi­neer in:

    • Pow­er electronics

    • Dig­i­tal TV technology

  • Par­tic­i­pa­tion in projects involving:

    • E‑payment

    • EV charg­ing technologies

    • Auto‑navigation

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of nu­mer­ous patent in­fringe­ments through de­tailed analy­sis of claims and standards

  • Sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to in­creas­ing li­cens­ing revenues

  • In­ven­tor of five patents in pow­er elec­tron­ics and dig­i­tal TV technology

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • MSc in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy (ETH Zurich)

  • Post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty (ETH Zurich)

Net­work & Volunteering
  • Ex­pe­ri­enced tech­ni­cal con­trib­u­tor in patent and tech­nol­o­gy matters

Rudi
We­ber

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Fo­cus on patent analy­ses for prov­ing and de­fend­ing against patent infringement

  • Tech­ni­cal sup­port in patent­ing and li­cens­ing procedures

  • Con­tributed to the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of dozens of li­cence agreements

  • Reverse‑engineering ex­per­tise, including:

    • IC trac­ing

    • Cir­cuit analysis

  • Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of patent in­fringe­ments in mul­ti­me­dia stan­dards such as:

    • DVB‑x / DVB‑x2

    • ATSC 3.0

  • Par­tic­i­pa­tion in var­i­ous tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ments as tech­ni­cal expert

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • In­ven­tor of sev­er­al grant­ed patents

  • Tech­ni­cal in­ter­ests and spe­cial­i­sa­tions include:

    • Bidi­rec­tion­al multi‑grid PFC/DC‑DC con­vert­ers up to 100 kW

    • RF pow­er am­pli­fiers and EMC

    • Wire­less pow­er transfer

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • BA in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Sciences
  • Post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in Chip De­sign (HSR Rapperswil)
  • Course in Mo­bile Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (ETH Zurich)
Net­work & Volunteering
  • Tech­ni­cal ex­pert in mul­ti­ple de­vel­op­ment and tech­nol­o­gy projects

Fabi­an
Schlum­berg­er

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Long‑standing pas­sion for mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tions and wire­less technologies

  • Ten years of in­ten­sive in­volve­ment in mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion patents

  • Deep un­der­stand­ing of “smart­phone bat­tles” and the as­so­ci­at­ed risks and opportunities

  • Proac­tive tech­ni­cal ad­vi­sor to clients

  • Par­tic­i­pa­tion in nu­mer­ous rounds of patent dis­cus­sions with li­censees and ex­ter­nal patent attorneys

  • Fa­mil­iar with a wide range of in­dus­try stan­dards, including:

    • 3G

    • 4G (PHY to RRC)

    • MPEG‑4

    • WiFi

    • DVB

  • Ex­pe­ri­ence in soft­ware hack­ing and IP traf­fic manipulation

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • In­ven­tor of sev­er­al patents in:

    • User au­then­ti­ca­tion for mo­bile devices

    • Video con­fer­enc­ing technologies

  • De­vel­ops un­con­ven­tion­al ap­proach­es to iden­ti­fy­ing patent infringements

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • BA of Ap­plied Sci­ence in Elec­tron­ics (2006)
Net­work & Volunteering
  • Ac­tive tech­ni­cal ad­vi­sor in patent and tech­nol­o­gy discussions

Rolf
Gulden­er

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Spe­cial­ist in mem­o­ry ex­trac­tion and con­tent analysis

  • Ex­trac­tion of mem­o­ry dumps using:

    • Log­ic analysers

    • Soft­ware tools run­ning on tar­get devices

  • De­vel­op­er of cus­tom content‑analysis software

  • Ex­pert in ac­cess­ing Linux‑based de­vices such as:

    • Dig­i­tal TVs

    • Set‑top box­es

    • Mo­bile phones

  • Strong back­ground in soft­ware hacking

  • Fa­mil­iar with DVB trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy, especially:

    • HbbTV

  • Over 20 years of ex­pe­ri­ence analysing and doc­u­ment­ing patent infringements

  • Tes­ti­fied in Ger­man courts and suc­cess­ful­ly sup­port­ed le­gal teams

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • In­ven­tor and co‑inventor of sev­er­al grant­ed patents
Ed­u­ca­tion
  • BA in Elec­tron­ics (2003)
Net­work & Volunteering
  • Tech­ni­cal ex­pert in patent and tech­nol­o­gy proceedings

Ste­fan
Dubach

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Ear­ly fas­ci­na­tion with con­sumer elec­tron­ics, lat­er lead­ing to a tech­ni­cal career

  • Over 20 years as an en­gi­neer spe­cial­is­ing in in­fringe­ment analysis

  • Broad an­a­lyt­i­cal ex­pe­ri­ence in:

    • OSD and user interfaces

    • Hard­ware and bus systems

    • Mem­o­ry management

    • Video com­pres­sion (MPEG‑2, MPEG‑4, HEVC)

  • Work on me­chan­i­cal implementations

  • In­ves­ti­ga­tion of net­work tech­nolo­gies such as:

    • WiFi

    • Blue­tooth

    • NFC

    • LAN

    • WAN

    • In­clud­ing analy­sis of re­lat­ed stan­dard documents

  • Ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in patent discussions

  • Eval­u­a­tion of large patent port­fo­lios (over 1,500 patents)

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • In­ven­tor and co‑inventor of sev­er­al grant­ed patents

  • Re­cent­ly ex­pand­ed ex­per­tise to de­vices in:

    • An­a­lyt­i­cal blood safety

    • In­fec­tious dis­ease diagnostics

    • Life sci­ences

    • In­frared spectroscopy

Ed­u­ca­tion
  • Bach­e­lor in Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions (2006)

  • Start­ed ca­reer in 1998 as an elec­tron­ics apprentice

Net­work & Volunteering
  • Ac­tive tech­ni­cal ex­pert in patent and tech­nol­o­gy analysis

Michael
Mey­er

Con­sul­tant as Patent Ex­pert & Tech­ni­cal Specialist

Pro­fes­sion­al expertise
  • Over two decades of ex­pe­ri­ence analysing patents and map­ping claims to CE prod­ucts, including:

    • TVs

    • Set‑top box­es

    • PVRs

    • Cam­eras

    • Mo­bile devices

  • Cre­ation of tech­ni­cal in­fringe­ment evidence

  • Ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence with stan­dards and tech­nolo­gies such as:

    • DVB

    • ARIB

    • In­ter­net transmission

    • GUIs

    • Record­ing technologies

    • Net­work solutions

  • Sup­port­ed suc­cess­ful li­cence agreements

  • Par­tic­i­pat­ed in patent dis­cus­sions with li­censees, pro­vid­ing tech­ni­cal in­sights to le­gal teams

  • Led a small team across projects for Eu­ro­pean and Asian markets

  • Eval­u­at­ed patent port­fo­lios for ac­qui­si­tion or sale

  • Re­cent system‑engineering ex­per­tise in:

    • Mo­bile com­mu­ni­ca­tion in dis­trib­uted net­works with lim­it­ed bandwidth

En­tre­pre­neur­ial / Pro­fes­sion­al Engagement
  • Co‑inventor of sev­er­al patent applications
Ed­u­ca­tion
  • BA in Ap­plied Sci­ence in Elec­tri­cal Engineering
Net­work & Volunteering
  • Tech­ni­cal ex­pert in patent and li­cens­ing processes