Dr. Edgar Duschl is Senior Vice President Intellectual Property of Schaeffler Group, responsible for Patents, Trademarks, Domains and Brand-Protection within Schaeffler Group world-wide.
Dr. Duschl has been working in the field of IP since 1992 in different positions. Having started in the IP department of Giesecke & Devrient in München as a patent-professional he joined Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, in 1997, where he took over worldwide IP-responsibility for a US subsidiary and became deputy of the IP department . From July 2003 on he was assigned head of the Intellectual Property department of LuK- Group in Bühl/Baden, a subsidiary of Schaeffler. In 2009 he was appointed Senior Vice- President Intellectual Property Schaeffler Group.
Dr. Duschl holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Regensburg, is a German and European Patent Attorney. He is member of the VPP, deputy chairman of the VDA working group IP and chairman of the working group automobile of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) , national committee Germany.