![[----- JOSEF STRAUS _____]](straus.jpg) | Born 1938 in Trieste, Italy. Law Studies in Ljubljana and Munich. Private practise from 1968 to 1977; since then with the MPI, later also other universities. Author or co-author of numerous publications in the field of industrial property, especially in the biotech field. Consultant to OECD, WIPO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, CEC, World Bank, Scientific Services of the German Federal Parliament and the European Patent Organisation. Former President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), Chairman of the Program Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI), Chairman of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), Member of Standing Advisory Committy of the European Patent Organisation (SACEPO), Senate Commission on Basic Issues of Gene Research of the German Research Assocation (DFG) etc. |