Dr. Stephan Kutik
Associate
Dipl.-Biochem.
Telephone: +49 (0)89 / 99 84 79-6
European Patent Attorney
E-Mail: [email protected]
Patentanwalt
European Trademark Attorney
European Design Attorney
Professional Qualification
Technical Expertise
Dr. Stephan Kutik is admitted before the German Patent and Trademark
Biochemistry
Office, the German Federal Patent Court, the Office for Harmonization in
Biotechnology
the Internal Market, and the European Patent Office. Before joining
Molecular Biology
„Zwicker Schnappauf & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB“, Stephan
Process engineering
was trained at the well-respected life science patent department of an
Medicine
international law firm.
Stephan has extensive experience in the drafting and prosecution of
German, European and international patent applications, in opposition
proceedings before the European Patent Office and opinion matters in
the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology, process engineering, and
medicine. He has also been involved in nullity proceedings and in
providing strategic advice concerning the creation of international patent
portfolios.
Stephan studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
He carried out his diploma thesis at EMBL Monterotondo, Italy, and his
doctoral thesis in the laboratory of Prof. Nikolaus Pfanner at the
University of Freiburg, Germany. Afterwards he joined the laboratory of
the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Medicine/Physiology, Prof. Günter Blobel, at
the Rockefeller University, New York, USA, as a postdoctoral associate.
Stephan received fellowships from the “Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds,
Foundation for Basic Research in Medicine”, the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, the „German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)“
and the „National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina“. His doctoral thesis
in biology was honoured with the Pfizer Research Award 2009 for young
scientists at Freiburg University.
Zwicker Schnappauf & Partner Patentanwälte PartG mbB (partnership with limited professional liability)
Partnerschaftsregister Amtsgericht München: PR 726
Radlkoferstr. 2, 81373 München, Tel.: +49 (0)89 / 99 84 79-6, Fax: +49 (0)89 / 99 84 79-79
[email protected] http://www.zsp-ip.de
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Scientific Publications:
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Qiu J., Wenz L.S., Zerbes R.M., Oeljeklaus S., Bohnert M., Stroud D.A., Wirth C., Ellenrieder L., Thornton
N., Kutik S., Wiese S., Schulze-Specking A., Zufall N., Chacinska A., Guiard B., Hunte C., Warscheid B.,
van der Laan M., Pfanner N., Wiedemann N., Becker T.
Cell (2013) 154(3):596-608
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Gebert N.*, Joshi A.S.*, Kutik S.*, Becker T., McKenzie M., Guan X.L., Mooga V.P., Stroud D.A., Kulkarni
G., Wenk M.R., Rehling P., Meisinger C., Ryan M.T., Wiedemann N., Greenberg M.L., Pfanner N.
Curr. Biol. (2009) 19(24):2133-9
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Seo H.S., Ma Y., Debler E.W., Wacker D., Kutik S., Blobel G., Hoelz A.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. (2009) 106(34):14281-6

Kutik S., Stroud D.A., Wiedemann N., Pfanner N.
Biochim. Biophys. Acta. (2009) 1790(6):409-15. Review.
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Kutik S.*, Rissler M.*, Guan X.L., Guiard B., Shui G., Gebert N., Heacock P.N., Rehling P., Dowhan W.,
Wenk M.R., Pfanner N., Wiedemann N.
J. Cell Biol. (2008) 183(7):1213-21.
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Chacinska A., Guiard B., Müller J.M., Schulze-Specking A., Gabriel K., Kutik S., Pfanner N.
J. Biol. Chem. (2008) 283(44):29723-9.
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Kutik S., Stojanovski D., Becker L., Becker T., Meinecke M., Krüger V., Prinz C., Meisinger C., Guiard B.,
Wagner R., Pfanner N., Wiedemann N.
Cell (2008) 132(6):1011-24.
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Kutik S., Stojanovski D., Becker L., Stroud D.A., Becker T., Meinecke M., Krüger V., Prinz C., Guiard B.,
Wagner R., Meisinger C., Pfanner N., Wiedemann N.
Cell (2008) 135(7):1159-1160.
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Kutik S., Guiard B., Meyer H.E., Wiedemann N., Pfanner N.
J. Cell. Biol. (2007) 179(4):585-91. Review.
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Becker T., Pfannschmidt S., Guiard B., Stojanovski D., Milenkovic D., Kutik S., Pfanner N., Meisinger C.,
Wiedemann N.
J. Biol. Chem. (2008) 283(1):120-7.
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Thirion C., Lochmüller H., Ruzsics Z., Boelhauve M., König C., Thedieck C., Kutik S., Geiger C., Kochanek
S., Volpers C., Burgert H.G.
Hum. Gene. Ther. (2006) 17(2):193-205.
Other Publications:
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Renken J., Kutik S.
Going Public Life Sciences (2015) (1):26-27
* Authors contributed equally

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