Specialisation:
Main field of practice is industrial property law. Active as a litigator in Germany, organizes and coordinates multi-jurisdictional patent litigation in Europe. Licensing, competition law, general contract law. Special expertise in counseling Japanese enterprises on German and European law and European enterprises on Japanese law. International arbitration.
Publications:
Legal Thought and the Concept of Law in Japan (1990); The Significance of Industrial Property for Economic Development: The Japanese Experience (1984); Patent Strategies of Japanese Enterprises (1996). Numerous publications in German, English, and Japanese on intellectual property and comparative law.
Professional Memberships:
GRUR, AIPPI, LES, German-Japanese Lawyers Association, Japan Association for Industrial Property Law.
Career:
School education in Japan; study of law and Japan Studies at University of Hamburg; study of Japanese civil law at University of Tokyo on Japanese Government Scholarship; second juridical state examination 1975; German attorney-at-law since 1975; juris doctor, summa cum laude, 1989; Head of the Japan and East Asia Department, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, 1975 -1992; Lecturer at WHU Koblenz School of Graduate Management on "Innovation and Intellectual Property Law", 1998-2002; sole arbitrator and chairman of arbitral tribunal in international arbitration proceedings. With Hoffmann ยท Eitle since 1989. Frequent speaker.
Personal:
Leisure interests include Bach in the morning and Mozart at night, reading non-fiction (mostly) and watching good movies at home.
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