Zsolt Szentpéteri

Managing partner, SBGK Attorneys at Law and Patent Attorneys

Zsolt Szentpéteri is the patent managing partner at SBGK Attorneys at Law and Patent Attorneys.

He graduated as a chemical engineer (MSc) from the Technical University of Budapest and as a special IP engineer in 1998. For several years he also attended special courses for patent attorneys at the Academy of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI). He qualified as a Hungarian patent attorney in 2000 and a European patent attorney in 2003. He is registered representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Zsolt’s practice areas cover patent prosecution and validation, litigation and technology transfer. He has gained substantial experience in inorganic and organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, food chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry and biotechnology. Zsolt handled number of opt-outs before the UPC.

In 2023, the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office elected Zsolt as treasurer. Zsolt is vice president of the Hungarian Chamber of Patent Attorneys and the Hungarian Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI); he is also a member of the Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (MIE) and of the AIPPI, the FICPI and the European Patent Practice Committee.