Heinz is a German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney with his office at Munich, as a partner of Boehmert & Boehmert. His technical background (as well as PhD degree) is in physics. Heinz teaches Intellectual Property Law as an Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany; as a Lecturer at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), Munich, Germany and as a Visiting Professor as well as a Lecturer at several further universities in both Asia and the United States. He is a Past-President of LES International and of LES Germany. Heinz has received the Gold Medal of LESI in 2005 and was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame of IAM in 2014.