Guest Lecturers

During our course of study in Dresden we offer a regular forum of practioniers who give an insight to their practical work in the field of Intellectual Property Law.

Industrial Property - general

Attorney Prof. Dr. Sönke Ahrens,                                                                                   Hamburg

Dr. Alfredo Barona, LL.M. (Dresden/Exeter)
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart

Attorney Tobias Fürniß, Ph.D. (UIBE)
Schlatter Law Firm, Heidelberg 

Patent Attorney Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar,
Böhmert & Böhmert Law Firm, München

Attorney Dr. Ingo Gehring, LL.M.
Siemens, München

Attorney Dr. Matthias Meyer
Kanzlei Bird&Bird, Düsseldorf

Attorney Prof. Dr. Hans-Eric Rasmussen-Bonne,                                                     
Weitnauer Law Firm, Berlin

Judge Dr. Hubertus Schacht, M.A.
Landgericht München

Dr. Dieter Stauder,                                                                                                                        CEIPI Straßburg

Attorney Dr. Marco Stief, LL.M. (Chicago) 
Maiwald Law Firm (German Track only)

Attorney Dr. Daniel Schöneich
Battke Grünberg Law Firm, Dresden (German Track only)

Attorney Prof. Dr. Sebastian Wündisch, LL.M. (Dresden/Exeter)
Noerr Law Firm, Dresden

Copyright Law and Media Law

Tara Aaron-Stelluto, Attorney at Law
Aaron Sanders Law, Nashville, U.S.A

Attorney Prof. Dr. Bernhard von Becker
C.H. Beck, München

Attorney Prof. Dr. Hanno Fierdag,
Scheuermann Westerhoff Strittmatter Law Firm, Berlin (German Track only)

Attorney Dr. Anette Gärtner
ReedSmith, Frankfurt a.M.

Dr. James Griffin,                                                                                                              University of Exeter

Peter Mezei, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
University of Szeged

Attorney Prof. Dr. Christian Schertz,
Schertz Bergmann Law Firm, Berlin (German Track only)

Attorney Kerstin Schmitt,
Schertz Bergmann Law Firm, Berlin (German Track only)

Data Protection Law

Tara Aaron-Stelluto, Attorney at Law
Aaron Sanders Law, Nashville, U.S.A

Dr. Tilman M. Dralle, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Hubert Burda Media, Offenburg

Attorney Mike Rasch
Linnemann-RA und DATAREA GmbH (German Track only)

Attorney Dr. Kai Westerwelle,                                                                                         Bird&Bird Law Firm, San Francisco

Trade Mark Law and Design Law

David A. Copland, Attorney at Law
Copland Legal, Dresden

Achim Bender,                                                                                                                           Pres. Judge at the Federal Patent Court, retired, Munich
Member of the Boards of Appeal of the Office for Harmonization from 1997 to 2007

Marianne Grabrucker
 Pres. Judge at the Federal Patent Court, retired, Munich

Attorney Judith Hesse, LL.M. (Dresden/Exeter)
SemperIP, Munich

Dr. Martin Marx,                                                                                                                        Judge, OLG Dresden

Attorney Dr. Rembert Niebel, LL.M. (Columbia)
Baker & McKenzie Law Firm, Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Axel Nordemann
Nordemann Law Firm, Potsdam

Dr. hab. Justyna Ożegalska-Trybalska,                                                                           Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Attorney Julie Schmitt, LL.M. (Dresden/Straßburg),                                                        Umami Law S.L.P., Alicante, Spanien

Daniel X. Thomas
Director (ret.), Directorate General 1, European Patent Office, Munich

Competition Law

Dr. Phillipp Ostendorff, LL.M. (Dresden/Straßburg),                                                       Central Association of the German Advertising Industry, Berlin

Rechtsanwalt Dr. Hauke Hansen
FPS Rechtsanwälte und Notare, Frankfurt am Main (German Track only)

Katja Heintschel von Heinegg,                                                                                            Central Association of the German Advertising Industry, Berlin

Rechtsanwältin Susann Jahn
Noerr Law Firm, Dresden

Dr. Helmut Kaiser,                                                                                                                              Judge (retired), OLG Dresden

Luc Peeperkorn,                                                                                                                    European Commission

Attorney Ilan L. Selz LL.M. (Minnesota),                                                                            Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer Law Firm, Berlin

Attorney Dr. Jeannette Viniol, LL.M.,
JBB Law Firm, Berlin

Attorney Dr. Jörg Witting
Bird&Bird Law Firm, Düsseldorf (German Track only)

Patent Law

Attorney Dr. Anette Gärtner, LL.M.
Eversheds Sutherland, Frankfurt a.M.

Attorney  Mike Gruber, LL.M. IP (The George Washington University)
Kanzlei Hoffmann Eitle, München

Dr. Ulrich Himmelmann
Judge at the Federal Patent Court, retired, Munich (German Track only)

Attorney Dr. Niels Hölder, LL.M. (Dresden/Exeter)
Hoffmann Eitle Law Firm, München

Alfred Keukenschrijver,
Judge at the Federal Court of Justice, retired, Karlsruhe (German Track only)

Dr. Phillipp Ostendorff, LL.M. (Dresden/Straßburg),                                                       Central Association of the German Advertising Industry, Berlin                                    

Dr. hab. Justyna Ożegalska-Trybalska,                                                                           Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Dr. Clemens Plassmann,                                                                                                           Hogan Lovells LLP

Attorney Benjeman von Rueden,                                                                                       Viering, Jentschura & Partner mbB

Attorney  Heike Röder-Hitschke
Maiwald, München

Prof. Toshiko Takenaka Ph.D.,                                                                                               CASRIP University of Washington, Seattle, Keio University