Heiko Wongel

Wongel IP, DE

Heiko Wongel is a freelance patent information consultant based in Hamburg, Germany. He is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Sagacious IP. He holds a physics degree from the University of Hamburg. He started his career in the patent world in 1990 as a patent examiner at the EPO in The Hague. In 1999 he moved to the classification department. He was in charge of this department from 2009 to 2011. From 2011 to February 2020 he headed the patent information promotion directorate in the Vienna office of the EPO.