Ingo Kober

Ingo Kober ( born July 22, 1942 in Legnica, Legnica in Poland today ) was the third President of the European Patent Office and the federal justice minister under the federal ministers, Klaus Kinkel and Sabine Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger (1991-1995).

After law school and clerkship (1972 ) Ingo Kober began as a 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 hiatus as a consultant for legal policy of the FDP parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, he returned in November 1982 as head of the Cabinet and Parliament matter under the Minister of Justice Hans A. Engelhard in the ministry back. Later he was responsible for the sub-department Personnel and Organisation (1985) and for the Department of Administration of Justice (1986).

Ingo Kober was appointed in January 1991 as successor to Klaus Kinkel to the State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice and held this position until 31 December 1995. As of January 1996, he took over the management of the European Patent Office as the third president. From 1987 to 1991 he had as head of the German delegation to the Board of the European Patent Organisation, the Federal Republic of Germany, represented the Federal Republic of Germany. After two terms Kober was 2004, the presidency of the French Alain Pompidou from. 2000 Kober was elected President of the Board of the "Centre d' Etudes Internationales de la Industrial Property ( CEIPI ) ", a section of the Université Robert Schuman Robert Schuman University, was elected. This office, he held until 2009.

In addition to his academic degree as a lawyer Kober still holds the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in Literature and Philosophy. Kober speaks German, English, French, Spanish, and Swedish. Ingo Kober has been married to his second wife and father of the radio presenter Simon Kober.

Honors:

  • Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1995 )
  • Docteur honoris causa; Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg ( 1999)
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