Since 2005 Heike has been advising and supporting national and international businesses in all areas of intellectual property protection, competition- and IP-related antitrust law, with particular focus on patent law and the law on employee inventions. She also advises on and prepares IP and technology-related contracts. She has many years of experience in coordinating infringement cases (patents, utility models, supplementary protection certificates) and assists in parallel validity proceedings. Her professional activities are mainly focused on the areas of pharma and life sciences as well as engineering. She also has wide-ranging expertise in trademark matters. Heike is a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden. She regularly holds talks and seminars on patent and licensing contracts as well as on IP-related procedural law.

Counsel Attorney-at-Law Certified Specialist Lawyer for Intellectual Property Representative before the UPC LL.M. "International Studies in Intellectual Property Law“

2023 Admitted to practice before the UPC since 2010 Certified specialist for Intellectual Property Rights 2003 - 2004 Master’s degree in „International Studies in Intellectual Property Law“ (LL.M.) from the TU Dresden with a study stay at the Centre d’Etudes International de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg 2003 Admitted to the bar 1999 - 2001 Trainee lawyer in Berlin 1993 - 1998 Studied law at the Humboldt University of Berlin