Intellectual Property Law

Intellectual Property Group (IPG) is dealing with all questions regarding Copyright-, Design Protection-, Trademark-, Patent-infringement, Competition- and Antitrust-Law and related fields of exclusive rights like Personality rights (especially the privilege as to one own's image) and consists of members specialised on some or all of these Laws.

 

When we plan a new programme for a session, first, we pay attention to the members' latest experience on which issues their clients were interest, second, we observe new developments in national and, first of all, EU initiatives on new Laws (Directives or Regulations to come) and, third, we examine court decisions, both with regard as to their possible impact on the daily practice of our clients.

 

We meet twice a year for a conference and we organize presentations to the above mentioned fields of law, done by our members themselves or by an external experts; we do not only discuss academic queries but we exchange experiences of our daily work; and of course, apart from the conference, we stay in close contact and in professional cooperation where the case may require it.

 

During the congresses, we sometimes have a joint session of IPG with another Practice Group. In the past we had already two meetings with Sports Law Group and Corporate. The reason is that "in real life" different branches of law overlap and interfere so that it is quite helpful to discuss a case from different points of view - by experts of different Practice Law Groups wihtin EJ.

 

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