Biography

Born in 1986 in Lünen; studied law at the JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT Würzburg and the WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT Münster; 2016 First Legal State Examination (OLG district Hamm); additional training in Intellectual Property Law (ITM Münster), Business Competence EBCL (European Business Competence License); Additional training in contractual drafting and negotiation; 2019 Second Legal State Examination (OLG district Hamm and Düsseldorf); fully qualified attorney in a medium-sized, internationally oriented patent law firm in Dortmund; attorney at horak. Attorneys-at-law since 2021.

Intellectual property rights specialization course since 2020.

Compliance officer (TÜV) with, among others, antitrust and corporate law, white-collar crime, compliance management systems (CMS).

Languages

• German
• English

Specializations in German Law

• Intellectual property law (patents, trademarks, copyrights, domains, etc.):
• Patent law
• Trademark law
• Domain law, domain name law
• Utility model law
• Design law
• Licensing law
• Competition and cartel law
• UWG law
• Advertising law
• Trademark law
• GWB Law
• Merger control proceedings
• Sports law (sportsmen’s law, sports club law, sports association law, sports contract law)
• Law of technology (including EDP, energy, internet, telecommunications)
• EDP law (including computer law, software law, data protection law)
• Energy law (in particular energy industry law and energy cartel law)
• Internet law/online law
• Telecommunications law
• Law of technical standards
• Construction law, engineering law, architects’ law
• Copyright law (moral rights, copyright exploitation rights, rights of use and ancillary copyrights) and media law
• Music law
• Publishing law
• Artists’ contract law
• Photography law
• Film law
• Event law
• European law
• Pharmaceutical law and food law
• Tax law and commercial criminal law (with reference to the above-mentioned areas of law)
• animal and health law
• General civil law
• Civil procedure
• International commercial law
• Compliance law, including development of CMS according to ISO 37301, whistleblowing, external support, audits, training courses