Specialisation:
Patent litigation, contract law and IT law. Active as litigator and adviser in non-contentious matters relating to licensing, competition law, distribution law, commercial and civil law. Special expertise in counselling Japanese enterprises on German and European law.
Publications:
The Principle of Exhaustion (Copyright World, Issue 109, April 2001); Data Protection in Merger & Acquisition (M&A Review, Issue 2, 2002, German Language); Licensing of Software in Germany - Checklist; Consumer Contracts in Germany - Checklist (American Bar Association); The E-Commerce Legal Arsenal: Practitioner Agreements and Checklists (2004, together with Dr. Bettina Goldmann); Drafting Contracts for Advertising and Distributing via the Internet (Leistner/Bettinger); Advertising and Distributing via the Internet (Publisher: Otto-Schmidt-Verlag December 2002, German Language).
Professional Memberships:
DGRI
Career:
Study of law at Saarbrucken University 1991-1995; First juridical examination 1995; Research assistant at the Institute of Law and Computers of Saarbrucken University 1992-1994; Legal traineeship in Duesseldorf 1996-1998; Doctor iuris at Saarbrucken University 1998; Second juridical examination 1998; LL.M., National University of Ireland/University College Dublin 1998/1999; German attorney-at-law since 1999; with Hoffmann ∙ Eitle since 2007.
Personal:
Leisure interests include hiking, movies and reading.
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