Since 2021
Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney at df-mp
Elfrun Ratzke
Senior Associate
Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc.
Dr. Elfrun Ratzke has been working in the field of intellectual property since 2016 and is authorised to represent clients before the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). As a patent attorney at df-mp, she joined our team in the field of chemistry and pharmacy in 2021.
+ 49 89 210 296 0
elfrun.ratzke@df-mp.com
Elfrun Ratzke
Senior Associate
Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc.
Dr. Elfrun Ratzke has been working in the field of intellectual property since 2016 and is authorised to represent clients before the European Patent Office (EPO), the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the German Federal Patent Court (BPatG) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). As a patent attorney at df-mp, she joined our team in the field of chemistry and pharmacy in 2021.
+ 49 89 210 296 0
elfrun.ratzke@df-mp.com
practice areas.
Dr. Ratzke advises national and international companies on all questions of intellectual property protection. Her technical focus is on the fields of biochemistry, in particular bioorganic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry. She is responsible for conducting patent application, opposition, appeal and nullity proceedings.
admissions.
- Patent Attorney
- European Patent Attorney
- Unified Patent Court (UPC) representative
- European Trademark Attorney
- European Design Attorney
- European Patent Litigator
curriculum vitae.
2018-2021
Patent Attorney at the Mitscherlich law firm
2016-2019
Training as a patent attorney at the law firm Kraus & Weisert, internship at the District Court Munich I, at the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court
2011-2016
PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry in cooperation with the Structural Genomics Consortium of the University of Oxford (dissertation topic: development of triazolobenzotriazepines and triazolothieno-triazepines as selective inhibitors of bromodomains of the BET family).
2005-2011
Studies (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) of biochemistry and chemistry with focus on bioorganic chemistry at the University of Bielefeld, Bachelor, Master and research work in bioorganic synthesis chemistry: “Synthesis of peptide‑, sugar-based molecules as well as inhibitors and their cellular testing”
2011
Scientific activity at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
2009-2010
Research internship at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia
association memberships.
publications.
- Belluau, P. Noeureuil, E. Ratzke, A. Skvortsov, S. Gallagher, C. A. Motti, M. Oelgemöller, Photodecarboxylative benzylation of phthalimide in pH 7 buffer: a simple access to 3-arylmethyleneisoindolin-1-ones, Tetrahedron Letters2010, 51, 4738-4741.
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