Jakob Silbiger has a doctorate in technical science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, and a law degree from the University of Basel. He is also a qualified European Patent Attorney. He worked as a research chemist at ICI and was head of inorganic research at Lonza AG. He then worked in the patent department of Sandoz AG, Basel, and was subsequently appointed head of the patent and law department and acting head of research at Capsugel AG in Basel. Jakob Silbiger has been with BRAUNPAT since 1993.