Joseph Straus#
| Email: | j.straus 'at' ip.mpg.de |
| Membership Number: | 2096 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Date of Birth: | 1938/12/14 |
| Username: | jstraus |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011- Chair IP Innovation Management, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria
- 2009- Emeritus Director and Emeritus Scientifc Member of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law
- 2001- present Marshall B. Coyne Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Law, George Washington University, Law School. Washington, D.C.
- 2003-2009 Chair of the Managing Board of the Munich Institutfor Intellectual Property Center
- 2001-2009 Managing Director of the Max Planck Cneter, Competition and Tax Law, Munich
- 2005- Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Toronto Faculty of Law
- 2003-Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at the Stanford University.
- 1990- Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
- between 1989 and 1998 Visiting Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y.
- 1986- Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Ljubljana
- 1977- Max-Planck-Institute, Munich
- Private practise from 1968 to 1977
Fields of Scholarship
- Intellectual Property and Competition Law
- European and International Patent Law
- law of Employee’s Inventions
- international Protection of IPR and World Economic Order
- technology transfer
- IP arbitration
Honours and Awards
- Hororary Doctorates, University of Ljubljana (2001), University of Kragujevac (2003)
- Honorary Director of the Intellectual Property Institute of the Tongji University, Shanghai
- Honorary Professor Tongji University, Shanghai
- Honorary Professor Huazhong University for Science and Technology, Wuhan
- Honorary Director of the Chinese-German Institute for Intellectual Property, Huazhong University, Wuhan
- Honorary Professor, University of Xiamen
- Member Academia Europaea, Chair of Law Section
- Corresponding Member,Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Vice President, Europen Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Katz-Kiley Fellow 1999 of the University of Houston Law Center
- Science Award 2000, upon proposal of the Max-Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, of the Foundation for the German Science (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft)
- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2005
- Honorary Member, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), 2006
- Venice IP Award 2007 ("Premio Venezia per la Proprietà Intellettuale")
- Order of Merits, Republic of Slovenia 2010
- Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia, 2011
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