Skulikaris, Yannis

Yannis Skulikaris works in the European Patent Office as Director Operations in the field of Information and Communications Technology. Yannis holds a Physics degree from the Aristoteles University in Thessaloniki and a Computer Science degree from the University of Hamburg. He has 40 years of professional experience in computer technology, including almost 30 years in patent protection in the computer field, in positions of increasing responsibility, leading to his present managerial post. Next to his main duties, he has been instrumental in devising and implementing the EPO's operational quality control system including ISO9001 certification. He is the vice-chair of the working group defining guidelines for the examination of computer-implemented inventions at the EPO. Having followed education in European Patent Law with the University of Strasbourg and two years of legal studies with the University of London, Yannis lectures as a guest lecturer for European Patent Law, in particular for patenting of computer-implemented inventions, at the Law School of the Maastricht University and the Washington University, St. Louis. He has presented the European practice in patenting computer-implemented inventions in various forums in Europe, the USA and Asia.