Managing partner of Danubia Patent and Law Office LLC.

 

Experience: Mr. Petho received his M.Sc. degree in chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry 1984 from the Eötvös Loránd Unversity of Sciences (ELTE), worked at the Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged (Postgraduate Training in molecular biology, 1984-85) and became a Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1986 (ELTE). Mr. Pethő joined the firm in 1994 He is a Hungarian (since 1999) and European (since 2003) patent attorney.

 

Professional areas: As a patent attorney having a technical background in pharmaceutical chemistry and molecular biology, his main field of activity is patent prosecution and litigation concerning patents issued in the fields of biotechnology and pharmaceutical chemistry. Since 2000 he has been the head of the Biotech Group in Danubia. From 2009 till 2011 he was a deputy managing partner elected by the partners being the head of Chemical and Biotechnological Patent Operations. Since 2012 he has been the managing partner of the firm.

 

Member of organizations: Chamber of Hungarian Patent Attorneys (member of the Presidium; member of the Examination Committee), epi Biotech Committee, epi Council, Hungarian Intellectual Property and Copy Right Organization (Executive President), AIPPI.