Our experts at Shalibeik IP include experienced European and German Patent Attorneys as well as Lawyers and Representatives before the Unified Patent Court.

Hotan Shalibeik

Dr.-Ing., Dipl.-Ing.

Hotan Shalibeik studied Electrical Engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology and at the Australian National University in Canberra. He obtained his doctorate in 2007 at the Braunschweig Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis is related to the field of optical communications, in particular to Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers (see dissertation). He is author and co-author of several scientific publications in the field of optical communications and photonics.

Mr. Shalibeik is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney) and admitted to the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), to the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG) and to the BGH being the highest court in Germany, the German Federal Court of Justice (FCoJ / BGH), in nullity appeal proceedings. He is also a European Patent Attorney and admitted to the European Patent Office (EPO) as well as a European Trademark and Design Attorney and admitted to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante. Furthermore, he is a UPC Litigator and registered as a Representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC). He has been active in intellectual property law since 2007. Mr. Shalibeik began his career in patent law at one of the most prestigious and renowned German IP and Law firms in Munich and at a well-known IP firm in Düsseldorf. During his training, he was also active at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and at the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), both in Munich, and at Europe's premier litigiation court in Düsseldorf, named the Higher Court for Patent Infringement and Litigation (OLG Düsseldorf), before he finally graduated in 2010 as Patentanwalt. Mr. Shalibeik then transitioned to work cross-border as a patent attorney at the Munich, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö offices of one of the largest and most prestigious European IP law firms, where he inter alia served U.S. patent firms and a number of highly renowned major international corporations who are active in various technical fields.

In 2013 Mr. Shalibeik founded Shalibeik IP. He has gained international patent experience prosecuting applications and his main practice areas in the field of Intellectual Property Law include IP strategy, patent, trademark and design matters as well as licensing. He supervises cases across all areas of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with a strong focus on Deep Tech and Quantum Technology, especially Telecommunications, Measurement and Advanced Control Technology, Optics and Laser Physics, Antenna Technology and Software (CII) as well as in the fields of Display Technology, MedTech, CGI, and Robotics.