Dieter Stauder

Dieter Stauder (born 1940) is a German attorney-at-law and an expert in intellectual property law. He was the Director of the International Section of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Industrielle or CEIPI), which is a part of the University of Strasbourg, France, from 1992 to 2007. From 1992 to 2005, he was member of the European Patent Office. He also worked as an attorney-at-law with the firm Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler.

He coauthored the 1200-page book "Singer/Stauder, The European Patent Convention, A Commentary, 2003", which was considered as an international reference book on the European Patent Convention. He has published at least 100 academic papers.