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About this Practice AreaWerner Bachmann is a lawyer and partner at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner. He specialises in advising on technology projects (IT, telecommunications), outsourcing, proprietary and open source licensing models, e-business models, leasing and sales financing, IT compliance and data protection, export control and customs law as well as energy law. He is also a regular lecturer at the Institute for IT in Healthcare in Freiburg / Constance. Werner Bachmann is a member of the Working G...
Bettina Backes studied at the University of Bonn. This was followed by a long-term period of employment in the publishing industry and the intensification of her specialization in a law firm focused on media law and several years as a partner in a trans-regional and internationally-oriented commercial law firm in Stuttgart. Alongside her voluntary involvement in various cultural and educational institutions, she is a (deputy) judge at the Constitutional Court of Baden-Württemberg and mem...
Viola Bensinger co-chairs the firm's Global Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice and also chairs the Technology Practice as well as the Litigation Practice in Germany. She advises clients from the technology, media, health care and other industries. Within the technology sector, Viola advises international internet, technology and healthcare companies in the areas digitisation projects, IT outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, electronic payment, data protection, software licensing ...
Christian Czychowski is an expert in all technology-based areas of contract law, whether that be IT law, patent law and licensing law or the technology-related parts of copyright law. A particular focus of Christian’s expertise has for some years been advising technology companies and IT service providers and guiding them in their implementation of M&A projects and R&D projects as well as with licensing issues. As a pioneer in data law, he also has extensive expertise in all iss...
Christoph Enaux is a partner with Greenberg Traurig Germany. LLP. He chairs the German Telecommunications Sector Group as well as the German Regulatory and Competition Practice Group of Greenberg Traurig. Christoph focuses on advising domestic and international clients in the areas of German and EU telecommunications and media regulation and competition law. He advises on commercial and regulatory aspects of new business models as well as on regulatory, merger control and antitrust proceeding...
Jens Engelhardt is a lawyer, specialist lawyer for information technology law (IT law), specialist lawyer for industrial property rights and specialist lawyer for copyright and media law. He conducts negotiations and litigations when technology and/or IT projects are in a state of distress, in (imminent) infringements of copyrights, trademark rights, business, and trade secrets and in unfair competition. The strategic planning and implementation of complex and often international procedures f...
Dr. Maximilian Greger Attorney Certified IT-law attorney Certified copyright and media law attorney Specialists areas: Intellectual property, trademark law, competition law, copyright law, media law, IT and internet law, data privacy, Italian desk Dr. Maximilian Greger is a certified IT-law attorney as well as certified copyright law and media law attorney. He provides advice to and represents clients in the entire field of intellectual property, i.e. trademark law, competition law, copyright...
Gudrun Hausner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office. As a member of the practice group IP/IT/Media, her area of activity comprises in particular data protection law, IT law and competition law. She advises national and international clients mainly in the area of IT contract law - particularly for software development and customisation contracts - on questions regarding outsourcing, cross-border data transfer and e-commerce. Gudrun Hausner represents clients in judicial proceedings a...
Founding partner of TCI Rechtsanwälte München Partner at Baker & McKenzie in Munich (2002 – 2007) Associate at Baker & McKenzie in Frankfurt a.M., Dallas/Texas and Munich (1997 – 2002) Dr.jur. University of Regensburg Bar admission 1995 Law clerkship in Regensburg University of Regensburg Law School
Born in 1971 Legal studies at University of Osnabrück Consultant for German regional stock exchanges, 1998 Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") in the Oldenburg Higher District Court District Elective rotation with Dorado Law Group, New York Awarded doctoral degree (Dr. jur.) in 2000 Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 2001 Lawyer with Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Osnabrück and Hanover, 2001 - 2011 Certified Specialized Attorney in Commercial and Corporate Law Certifie...
Dr. Michael Karger is an attorney admitted to practice in Germany, a certified specialist attorney for information technology law and a certified specialist attorney for administrative law. He specializes in advice concerning IT law, copyrights and software law, outsourcing, data protection, and intellectual property (copyright and trade secrets) . Michael drafts, reviews and negotiates license agreements, project, outsourcing, support and distribution contracts, as well as standard terms and...
Susanne Klein is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. For many years now, data protection law has been her main field of activity. In this area, she advises, supports and trains internal data protection officers, managers and employees in companies, carries out compliance checks and reviews or prepares the necessary documentation. This includes strategic advice on the introduction of new technologies and in the event of data protection v...
Ted advises international clients on digitization matters, outsourcing projects, data protection and data analytics as well as on product compliance issues. Ted has worked for over 20 years in two leading international law firms and has advised some of the world's largest IT service providers on software law issues (e.g. agile development, SaaS, traditional licensing, open source), IT platform matters, data protection and data licensing, as well as know-how protection and IT security issues. ...
Mark Oliver Kühn is specialised in offering legal advice on information technology and privacy law, industrial property rights as well as contract and commercial law. Mr Kühn advises and supports national and international companies in designing corporate processes to ensure legal certainty, in particular in the fields of software contract law and open source, IT outsourcing and project contracts, data privacy and protection, e-commerce and multimedia law, electronic payment systems...
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...
Dr Andreas Lober is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and a member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. He advises national and international companies in the media and technology sector (in particular Internet, mobile applications and interactive entertainment) as well as investors with respect to copyright, law of unfair commercial practices, trademark law, protection of minors, data protection, and personality rights. He focuses his practice on negotiating development and licenc...
Katharina Mayerbacher is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the practice group IP/IT/Media. Her field of activity covers broadcasting, press, copyright and competition law as well as data protection law. She specialises in the advising of clients of the entertainment and publishing sector regarding all press and media law related matters. She also focuses on the advising of private television and radio broadcasters, especially as regards regulatory questions and problem...
Born in 1976 Legal studies at Bielefeld University, 1995 - 2000 Supplementary studies in informatics at Bielefeld University, 1996 - 1998 First Exam ("1. Staatsexamen") in 2000 Postgraduate studies in legal informatics at the Universities of Hannover and Vienna, 2000 - 2001 Research associate at Bielefeld University, 2001 - 2002 Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") in Bielefeld and Düsseldorf, 2002 - 2004 Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) 2004 Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 2004 Worked abr...
Dr. Gerhard Pischel has extensive experience in the field of German and EU Antitrust Law. He advises companies and industry associations in antitrust compliance (in particular with respect to mergers, distribution and co-operation agreements), the enforcement of and defence against claims based on Antitrust Law, proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office (in particular mergers and official infringement investigations), internal investigations and the co-ordination of international me...
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...
Stephan Schmidt specializes in advice to companies on telecoms, IT, software and Internet law as well as on general terms and conditions and corporate law. He drafts, checks and negotiates licensing, project, maintenance and distribution contracts, general business and licensing conditions and also provides litigation for national and international clients. He also has expertise in data protection law and the organization of legally compliant websites. In addition, Stephan Schmidt is active i...
Attorney at Law admitted in Düsseldorf (1st instance and Court of Appeal), Germany, born August 21, 1958, Recklinghausen, Germany, Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany Education and Former Activities : 1989 – 2000 with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Attorneys at Law, Certified Public Accountants, Düsseldorf, Germany and Brussels, Belgium; 2000 – 2003 Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Veltins Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf; since 01/2004: Partne...
Dr Florian Schmitz is a partner at the GÖRG Frankfurt office, and head of the IP, IT & Commercial Department. He advises national and international companies on complex technology projects, in particular with regard to digitalisation initiatives, IT and business outsourcing projects, IT integration, software licensing and data protection.
Lawyer since 2000 Specialist lawyer (Fachanwalt) for IT law Other activities : Instructor for prospective specialist lawyers in IT law Seminar coordinator with Management Circle Lectureship at Würzburg University (2008-2016) Education : Würzburg University (Dr. iur.) Université de Caen, France Career : Since 2005 Lawyer in Heidelberg 2004 Lawyer with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Frankfurt am Main 2002 to 2004 Public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main 2001 Lawyer with Hengeler...
Born in 1970 Law studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Legal internship in Munich From 1998 to 2000 freelance work at the Munich office of the international law firm Linklaters 2000: Lawyer in Munich at Wendler Tremml Rechtsanwälte, Munich 2001: doctoral degree (Dr. jur.) from Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich 2004: Partner at Wendler Tremml Rechtsanwälte, Munich Since 2007: Lecturer at DeutscheAnwaltAkademie for IT law 2011: Founding partner of TCI Rechtsanwälte...
Thomas Stögmüller is an attorney admitted to practice in Germany and a certified specialist attorney for information technology law . He specializes in advice concerning IT, e-commerce and telecoms law, copyrights and software law, outsourcing, data protection, intellectual property and antitrust . He drafts, reviews and negotiates license agreements, project, outsourcing, support and distribution contracts, as well as general terms and conditions. Another focus is ensuring that mar...
Michael Terhaag is founder and partner of the law firm Terhaag & Partner Rechtsanwälte based in Düsseldorf, Germany. As a lawyer, he has been practicing in Internet law, trademark law and competition law since 1999. In addition to advising and representing clients in contractual matters in intellectual property law, he also specializes in the law governing statements, press and media law, as well as youth protection and data protection. Since 2006, Michael Terhaag has been a Mas...
Dr Sascha Vander was admitted to the bar in 2006 and has been dealing with IT law issues since the beginning of his legal career. He specialises in IT projects, software and licensing law, e-commerce and data protection law as well as IT-specific questions of general civil and commercial law. His practice area also includes intellectual property law with a focus on competition and media law. Dr Sascha Vander studied law at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. After his second sta...
Jan Peter studied Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. During his time there, he was working with the editorial office 'Law and Judiciary’ and the legal department of the TV station ZDF. Moreover, he was serving as a research assistant in the executive office of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. After completing his Second Legal State Examination and working for law firms specialising in commercial law in Toronto (Canada) and Mainz, Jan Peter Voß has been i...
Christian Welkenbach is specialized in legal advice to companies on IT/IP Law as well as privacy Law. He became a certified specialist lawyer for IT law in 2008 and IP law in 2012. Christian Welkenbach started his career as a lawywer at Rauschhofer Rechtsanwälte in Wiesbaden, Germany and changed to Res Media in Mainz in 2009 as a partner. Since 2013 he is partner at TCI Rechtsanwälte in Mainz, Germany. He is a member of the German Association for Law and Computer Science (DGRI), Ger...
Gero Wilke, LL.M. Attorney Certified intellectual property attorney Certified IT-law attorney Certified external data protection officer Specialists areas : Intellectual Property, IT-law Gero Wilke specializes in legal consulting and conducting lawsuits in the areas of intellectual property law and information technology law. He advises and represents companies of all size, particularly medium-sized companies. The focus areas of his activity include trademark law, competition law, copyright l...
Information Technology Law Definition
“IT Law” is short for information technology law, a legal field of ever increasing significance. In a nutshell, IT law encompasses every aspect of the law associated with information systems and/or services. Although it currently lacks any proper definition under German law, the general consensus is that this is an independent legal field in its own right. There is a sense that IT law constitutes interdisciplinary material that embraces a number of different law fields in connection with information technology. Indeed, there’s a thin line between industrial property rights, media and entertainment laws when it comes to drafting license agreements or R&D contracts.
That said, full-range IT law consulting encompasses matters such as:
- Software agreements (e.g., license renewals, maintenance, distribution, escrow, and design copyrights)
- Hardware agreements (e.g., re-/purchase, lease, maintenance, development, and distribution)
- IT projects (e.g., ERP system implementation, IT service outsourcing, and electronic invoicing)
- Internet and e-business (including m-commerce)
- Data protection law and IT security (e.g. data protection manuals, data protection audits and services as external data protection officer)
- Extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of/defense against claims (e.g., cases involving IT project failures or court proceedings involving software licensing violations)
- Advisory services involving IT project transactions (e.g., IT due diligence in M&A transactions)
- IT compliance (e.g., licensing and data protection issues, including employee helpline and surveillance matters)
Add to that any legal questions arising from IT service contract awards through public tendering.
In
everyday practice, IT law consultancy requires expertise in a broad range of
law fields from compliance and data protection laws all the way to contract law
– as individually applied to the field of information technology. Moreover, IT
lawyers benefit from having at least some technical knowledge, particularly
around network and database structures, software functionality, and, if
necessary, programming languages. Last but not least, business knowledge is
just as important as any field or legal expertise when it comes to finding
individual and practical strategies and solutions.
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