Silke Freund to speak at TU Munich on 16 November 2018

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As part of the lecture series on “Intellectual Property Management in the Global Market Place” by Professor Toshiko Takenaka, Ph.D. at the department for Commercial Law and Intellectual Property at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and by Prof. Dr. jur. Christoph Ann, LL.M. (Duke Univ.), attorney Silke Freund will appear as guest speaker and give a speech on “Copyright, Trademark, Unfair Competition and Design Protection in the European Union and Germany”.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT at the MOIN Start-up Camp in Singapore and Bremen

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Entrepreneurs will meet from 16-24 November 2018 in Singapore and 7-8 March 2019 in Bremen at “MOIN – Perhaps the coolest start-up festival in the milky way”.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT will attend both events as official partner on site.

Dr Eckhard Ratjen will give a speech on 2 November 2018 at MOIN Singapore in 1Altitude. The title of his speech will be “Business disruptions for start-ups because of lack of proper strategy”. The journey to Singapore will be made by roughly 30 people – including the Senator for Economy, Work and Port of Bremen, Martin Günthner. Eckhard Ratjen will also make a speech on 20 November 2018 at the German Accelerator Southeast Asia (GASEA) event. The speech will be entitled ‘Increase the value of your start-up with Intellectual property rights’.

The MOIN Start-up Camp in March 2019 in Bremen is a two-day event for entrepreneurs, those interested in starting a company, investors and representatives of established companies. Workshops, speeches and network opportunities – for instance at one or other food truck – will be provided. Together with Dr Martin Erbacher and other BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT lawyers, Dr Eckhard Ratjen will be present at an info-stand – a Legal Clinic – at the event in Bremen.

Details on both events can be found here.

Motive Partners acquires LPA Group – BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT team advises

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With Dr. Sebastian Engels, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is, together with the lead advisors of SKYE Partners (Frankfurt) part of the advisor team for Motive Partners, set to make its first investment in Germany with the acquisition of Lucht Probst Associates (LPA Group).

Established two years ago by private equity investors and financial experts, Motive Partners is represented with branches in New York and London. The focus of investment clearly rests on technology companies active in the financial sector. The acquisition of LPA Group, based in Frankfurt, fits exactly into this target group: As of 1999, it has developed software solutions for banks and asset managers and counts around 200 employees.

SKYE PARTNERS has been active as a corporate and transaction law firm since February 2018 and has specialized in company law, venture capital, private equity and M&A. Here, the firm uses web-based technology in order to form and coordinate customised teams for complex transactions. In this way, SKYE PARTNERS has a steadily growing network of currently 500 legal advisors at 17 locations in key jurisdictions in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

Further information in JUVE and Deal Advisors.

Silke Freund to speak at TU Munich on 16 November 2018

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As part of the lecture series on “Intellectual Property Management in the Global Market Place” by Professor Toshiko Takenaka, Ph.D. at the department for Commercial Law and Intellectual Property at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and by Prof. Dr. jur. Christoph Ann, LL.M. (Duke Univ.), attorney Silke Freund will appear as guest speaker and give a speech on “Copyright, Trademark, Unfair Competition and Design Protection in the European Union and Germany”.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT at the MOIN Start-up Camp in Singapore and Bremen

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Entrepreneurs will meet from 16-24 November 2018 in Singapore and 7-8 March 2019 in Bremen at “MOIN – Perhaps the coolest start-up festival in the milky way”.

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT will attend both events as official partner on site.

Dr Eckhard Ratjen will give a speech on 2 November 2018 at MOIN Singapore in 1Altitude. The title of his speech will be “Business disruptions for start-ups because of lack of proper strategy”. The journey to Singapore will be made by roughly 30 people – including the Senator for Economy, Work and Port of Bremen, Martin Günthner. Eckhard Ratjen will also make a speech on 20 November 2018 at the German Accelerator Southeast Asia (GASEA) event. The speech will be entitled ‘Increase the value of your start-up with Intellectual property rights’.

The MOIN Start-up Camp in March 2019 in Bremen is a two-day event for entrepreneurs, those interested in starting a company, investors and representatives of established companies. Workshops, speeches and network opportunities – for instance at one or another food truck – will be provided. Together with Dr Martin Erbacher and other BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT lawyers, Dr Eckhard Ratjen will be present at an info-stand – a Legal Clinic – at the event in Bremen.

Details on both events can be found here.

Göttinger Copyright Congress on 13.11.2018 in historic buildings of SUB (formerly Paulinerkirche)

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An international and high-calibre programme on copyright law awaits participants to this year’s Copyright Congress, directed by Prof Gerald Spindler and Prof Andreas Wiebe on 13 November 2018 in Göttingen.

Attorney Dr. Stanislaus Jaworski will speak on “Problems in Practice with Enforcement”.

The preliminary programme is now available online; registration is now possible.

Patent attorney Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar – 9 November 2018

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9 November 2018, Berlin, Seminar of LES-Deutschland (LES-DE): Host of a lecture and discussion rounds on the subject of “Diversification options through the formulation of claims” (details here) 

If you are interested in this event,please contact Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar.

JUVE Manual of Corporate Law Firms 2018/2019 – excellent ratings for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT.

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BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is pleased by the numerous individual mentions and very good ratings for the firm in the various categories of the current JUVE manual. Mentioned by name were:

Christian W. Appel

Dr. Thomas L. Bittner
Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt, LL.M.

Dr. Markus Engelhard

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar

Dr. Jan Krauß         

Dr. Martin Schaefer

Dr. Volker Schmitz-Fohrmann, MJur

Wilhelm Stahlberg
Dr. Martin Wirtz

‘Trade Mark and Design Law / Competition Law’ was mentioned with praise and it was stated that the traditionally strong brand management practice “has been expanded over recent years to include a good litigation practice”. The international focus and strong connections with the work of patent attorneys were mentioned as strengths.

For Contract and Copyright Law, the JUVE manual stressed that the “well-established Media Law Practice […] is rooted so deeply in the international film industry such as to have only the fewest of rivals”; also the firm is developing “consistently into a specialist in proceedings against the illegal dissemination of contents on the internet.”

In Patent Registrations, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT spearheads the list and has an “uncontested position among the leading law firms”. In Contentious Litigation, its active conduct with mixed teams of patent attorney and general lawyers is rated positively.

The JUVE Manual Corporate Law Firms is geared towards decision-makers in companies, corporate lawyers and attorneys. The ratings are based on research of the editors, ratings submitted through questionnaires for individual legal fields, interviews with rivals, clients as well as the editing staff’s own knowledge of the sector.

JUVE Manual of Corporate Law Firms 2018/2019 – excellent ratings for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT.

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BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is pleased by the numerous individual mentions and very good ratings for the firm in the various categories of the current JUVE manual. Mentioned by name were:

Christian W. Appel

Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt, LL.M.

Dr. Markus Engelhard

Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar

Dr. Jan Krauß         

Dr. Martin Schaefer

Dr. Volker Schmitz-Fohrmann, MJur

Wilhelm Stahlberg

Dr. Martin Wirtz

‘Trade Mark and Design Law / Competition Law’ was mentioned with praise and it was stated that the traditionally strong brand management practice “has been expanded over recent years to include a good litigation practice”. The international focus and strong connections with the work of patent attorneys were mentioned as strengths.

For Contract and Copyright Law, the JUVE manual stressed that the “well-established Media Law Practice […] is rooted so deeply in the international film industry such as to have only the fewest of rivals”; also the firm is developing “consistently into a specialist in proceedings against the illegal dissemination of contents on the internet.”

In Patent Registrations, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT spearheads the list and has an “uncontested position among the leading law firms”. In Contentious Litigation, its active conduct with mixed teams of patent attorney and general lawyers is rated positively.

The JUVE Manual Corporate Law Firms is geared towards decision-makers in companies, corporate lawyers and attorneys. The ratings are based on research of the editors, ratings submitted through questionnaires for individual legal fields, interviews with rivals, clients as well as the editing staff’s own knowledge of the sector.

Dr Lara Kuntz receives the Basic Research Prize from the German Society for Orthopaedics and Accident Surgery (DGOU)

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The prize was awarded on 26 October 2018 at the German Congress for Orthopaedics and Accident Surgery. 

With the award, the DGOU honours research conducted by Lara Kuntz on biomolecular key structures in the Achilles tendon-to-bone connection. She showed that the fibres of the Achilles tendon attaching to the bone fan out in thin fibres which have a different protein structure as well as different geometric arrangement to tendon fibres. These micro-structural changes allow the efficient transmission of pull and pressure tension on to the bone. The results of the study have been published in Nature Materials.  

Details on the Basic Research Prize and previous winners can be found here.