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Intellectual Property Law - Hamburg, Germany
Thies Bösling is an experienced IP lawyer and founder of boesling IP, an IP litigation boutique based in Hamburg, Germany. He has an extensive track record of litigating IP and unfair competition cases before the national courts in Germany, the EU General Court and the European Court of Justice. His experience covers all aspects of enforcing IP rights (including well-known and unconventional trademarks) in national and cross-border litigation, developing and implementing strategies against co...
Amelie Brons advises clients in the field of intellectual property and information technology (IP/IT) as well a data protection law. She regularly represents clients from various industries in trademark, copyright and unfair competition proceedings before German courts and is very experienced with preliminary injunction proceedings. Amelie advises German and international companies on trademark strategies and represents her clients in trademark related office proceedings. Moreover, Amelie ass...
Born in Bremerhaven in 1984, Dr. Lisa Feuerhake studied German and Anglo-American law in Münster. After passing her first state licensing examination, Dr. Feuerhake completed a doctorate on the subject of “Competition Law in England”. As part of her doctorate, she spent a research semester at the University of Oxford, UK, for which she received a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. From 2010-2012, she completed her legal clerkship in Hamburg, with posts abroa...
Dr. Christian Freudenberg, born 1967 in Hagen, studied law at the Ruhr University, Bochum. Thereafter, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Rostock and the University of Hagen. He has been admitted to practise law in 1997. Since 2006, he is listed as a certified specialist in intellectual property law. From 1998 to 2000 he was Director of Business Affairs at edel music AG. Since 2001, he has been working as an attorney, joining a business law practice spezialising in media a...
Born in Göttingen in 1974, Dr. Stefanie Hartwig studied law in Kiel and Liège from 1994 to 1998 and completed her postgraduate studies in business law in Hamburg. Thereafter, she worked as a trainee lawyer in Hamburg and New York and as a research associate at the University of Hamburg. She completed her doctorate in 2002. Ms. Hartwig has been working as a lawyer since 2003, initially in a major international law firm and since 2005 at ZENK. Since 2007, she has also been a special...
Stefan Hennigs advises and represents clients primarily in matters of intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT). He is very experienced in the fields of industrial property, in particular trademark, design and unfair competition law, as well as copyright law. Stefan’s expertise includes the conception, administration and expansion of trademark portfolios as well as trademark clearance searches. In addition, Stefan regularly represents clients in trademark opposition, ca...
Daniel Hoppe advises and represents clients in Germany and abroad on all questions of intellectual property, in particular on patent and employee invention law as well as on the law of trade secrets. He has extensive experience in criminal investigations, which are essential in the prosecution of trade secret violations. He is the author of numerous professional publications on intellectual property law. He heads the Hamburg office of Preu Bohlig & Partner.
Dr. Thorsten Last studied electrical engineering in the field of information technology/communication technology at the University for Applied Sciences Augsburg as well as at the University of Ulster in Belfast. He completed these studies as a graduate engineer and Master of Engineering in 2001. From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Thorsten Last worked in the semiconductor and computer industry in various technical and managerial capacities. During this time, Dr. Last dealt in particular with developments ...
Christian was born in Hamburg in 1963. After his first state examination at the University of Hamburg he spent his legal clerkship, among others, with the Federal Cartel Office in Berlin, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, a law firm in Los Angeles and the German American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. In 1993, he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Pri...
Hartwig Schmidt-Hollburg advises clients on all matters related to trademarks, designs, copyrights, patents, know-how protection, and unfair competition as well as information technology and distribution. In these areas, Hartwig can rely on more than 20 years of experience and hundreds of legal disputes and court cases he has successfully conducted, some of them landmark cases that went up to the German Federal Patent Court, the German Federal Supreme Court, and the EU courts. Since the 1990s...
Torge Thielemann studied industrial engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig and completed this course of study as a graduate engineer in 2003. Parallel to this, he successfully studied business administration and management information systems at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and completed his Master degree in 2002. After working at an institute for applied research in the field of computer graphics technology, systems and applications in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, he began his ...
Philipp von Mettenheim completed his legal training in Heidelberg, Munich, Potsdam and London. He specializes in the areas of media law, in particular press and copyright law, and competition law. Another focus of his work is labour law. Philipp von Mettenheim teaches press and copyright law at the Academy at the German Armed Forces Information Centre in Strausberg. He is author of numerous publications and is a regular speaker at specialist lectures. He is one of the leading names in media l...
Dr Detlef von Schultz studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg. During his legal clerkship he earned his doctorate at the University of Hamburg. Since his admission to the bar in 1989, Dr Detlef von Schultz has been active in the area of intellectual property law. He specializes in trademark law and design protection. Dr Detlef von Schultz represents international manufacturers of branded goods and luxury goods – with a special focus on product piracy. Dr Detlef von Sch...
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