Dr. Anja Petersen-Padberg
Dr. jur., attorney-at-law
Specialisation
Specialised in patent and licensing matters, unfair competition law, coordinating EU-wide border seizure proceedings, law on employee inventions (including incentive and reward systems, company group inventions, representation at Arbitration Board proceedings), international civil procedure law including European execution proceedings and US-pre trial discovery in Germany, international private law, Japan-related legal matters.
Publications
News on www.kluwerpatentblog.com; Business Law in Japan - Cases and Comments, 2012 (with Moritz Bälz, Marc Dernauer and Christopher Heath); Corporate Remuneration, Systems for Employees' Inventions in Japan and Germany in: Hansen/Schüssler-Langeheine (Ed.), Patent Practice in Japane and Europe, 2011, 757 et seq.; Doitsu hatsumeiseido no kaiseiten (Reform of Germany's Act on Employees' Inventions), Chizai Kanri, Vol. 60, No. 7, 2010, 1205 (with Guntram Rahn); Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003 on Customs Action in: Dreier/Gielen/Hacon (Ed.), Concise International and European IP Law, 2nd ed. 2011; The right to the invention, employees' inventions and border measures in Japan in: Baum/Bälz (Ed.), Handbook on Japanese Trade and Commercial Law, 2011, 869, 872, 935 (in German); Country Report Germany in: Geimer/Schütze, Transnational Legal Issues in Civil and Commercial Matters (in German) (2008); European Union Counterfeits & Pirated Goods Regulation (EC) No. 1383/2003, Patents & Licensing, February 2005, 36, April 2005, 30; International Civil Procedure Law in Japan (in German) (2003); Japanese Civil Procedure Law (with Christopher Heath, in German) 2002.
Professional Memberships
GRUR, AIPPI, LES, German-Japanese Association of Jurists.
Career
Study of law at the University of Hamburg with emphasis on the law of the European Union and international private law. First juridical state examination in 1993. Study of Japanese international civil procedure law on a Japanese Government scholarship at the Waseda University, Tokyo, (1993 to 1995). Training, inter alia, at the Competition and Copyright Law Division of the Hamburg Regional Court. Second juridical state examination in 1998. Legal studies at the Department for Japan and East Asia of the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. Doctoral thesis on the Japanese International Civil Procedure Law (University of Cologne, 2002), "summa cum laude" and awarded with the JADE prize. German attorney-at-law since 1999. With Hoffmann · Eitle since 1999.
Personal Information
Leisure interests include concerts and theater, jogging, tennis, skiing, literature.
Languages
German, English, Japanese.
