Dr. Matthias Zigann is Presiding Judge at the Munich Regional Court. There he heads the 7th (patent) division since December 2012. After a three years fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich he served as a public prosecutor in Landshut for four years and as a regular member of the 7th division of the Munich Regional Court for six years. Before his appointment as presiding judge he had been delegated to serve as a research associate with the Xth civil (patent) division of the German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe for three years.