Ingo Kober (born 22 July 1942 in Liegnitz, now Legnica in Poland[1]) was the third president of the European Patent Office.
After completing his legal studies, Ingo Kober began his professional career in 1972 as judge and public prosecutor in Mannheim and Tauberbischofsheim.
[1] He then worked for a short time as chief legal policy adviser before returning to the MoJ in November 1982 as head of its "Cabinet and Parliamentary Affairs" department.
[1] In January 1991, Ingo Kober was appointed Secretary of State (German: Staatssekretär) at the MoJ,[1] a position he held until taking over as third president of the European Patent Office.
In 2007 he was President of the Administrative Council of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI), which is part of the Robert Schuman University.