Olaf Ungerer is a professional patent attorney in the IP law firm of Eisenführ, Speiser & Partner, which he joined in 2000 and where he became a partner in 2002. He heads a team of specialists in the firm that has been intensively focused for some years on the issues of patent valuation and portfolio management, and which has developed a customised range of services for the firm's clientèle. He is also a member of the DIN Working Committee on 'Patent Valuation', which is examining the establishment of a national and international standard for patent valuation.