BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT appoints Lawyer Dr. Eckhard Ratjen as New Partner of the Firm

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Bremen, 18.01.2022 – At the beginning of the year, the mixed law firm BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is appointing Dr. Eckhard Ratjen as a new lawyer to the partnership of the firm. Dr. Ratjen will strengthen the law firm in the areas of trade mark, design, copyright and competition law.

Dr. Eckhard Ratjen advises his clients on all strategic issues of trademark, design, copyright and competition law. The management of international IP portfolios is a central focus of his advisory practice. Another focus of his work is the prosecution and defence against infringements of intellectual property rights and competition law. Dr Eckhard Ratjen’s clients include large national and international companies as well as medium-sized companies in the media and consumer goods industry and start-ups.

Since his admission to the bar in 2013, Dr. Eckhard Ratjen has been working for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT at the Bremen office. As a further partner, he will complement the team there with the legal partners Malte Nentwig and Dr. Rudolf Böckenholt as well as the patent attorney partners Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, Dr. Volker Scholz, Dr. Martin Erbacher and Dr. Uwe Manasse.

Dr. Eckhard Ratjen studied law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Kiel University), concentrating on the fields of intellectual property and copyright law. After completing his doctoral thesis on a copyright law topic and his legal traineeship with stations in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, among other places, he studied international trade mark and copyright law at King’s College in London from 2012 to 2013. There, he obtained a Master of Laws degree with a specialisation in intellectual property law.

About BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT

With around 90 specialised patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law, including 24 patent partners and 14 attorney partners, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in Europe. The firm has offices in the cities of Munich, Bremen, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Bielefeld, as well as in the three international locations Alicante, Paris and Shanghai. The wide variety of legal fields and topics guarantees success-oriented advice to clients across the firm’s offices.

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Dr. Eckard Ratjen, Rechtsanwalt BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Dr. Eckhard Ratjen, LL.M. (London)
Attorney at Law
Certified IP Lawyer

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT appoints Dr. Matthias Hofmann and Florian Malescha as new partners of the firm

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Munich, 26.01.2021 – At the beginning of the year, mixed law firm BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is adding two new patent attorneys, Dr. Matthias Hofmann and Florian Malescha, to the  partnership of the firm. Dr. Matthias Hofmann will strengthen the firm in the areas of artificial intelligence as well as telecommunications and Florian Malescha in the area of classical mechanical engineering.

Dr. Matthias Hofmann advises and represents companies, research institutes and start-ups in examination, opposition and appeal proceedings before the European and German patent offices. He is primarily involved in computer-implemented inventions with artificial intelligence, imaging, video and image processing, computer architecture, telecommunications and bioinformatics among his major areas of technical expertise. As a partner at the Munich office, Dr. Hofmann will strengthen the firm in the areas of artificial intelligence and telecommunications and also further expand the China business.

After studying physics and computer science, Dr. Matthias Hofmann has been working in intellectual property law since 2010. He has been with BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT since 2015. Through his PhD in machine learning, he is bringing along a special understanding of complicated algorithmic inventions.

Florian Malescha’s activities include client counselling and support as well as the establishment and maintenance of competitive patent portfolios, the defence and enforcement of intellectual property rights in patent litigation, nullity and opposition proceedings. He focuses particularly on medium-sized companies and start-ups.
His main area is predominantly classical mechanical engineering and related technical fields. In close cooperation with departmental manager Nils T. F. Schmid, Florian Malescha will continue to push forward the area of mechanical engineering as a new partner at the Munich office.

After studying mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Florian Malescha started his career as a patent attorney at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in 2014. Admission to the German and European bar followed in 2017 and 2018. Just before the turn of the year, he received the “Patents Lawyer of the Year” award from the “Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2020”.

About BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT

With 24 patent partners and 13 other partners, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in Germany. The firm has offices in the cities of Munich, Bremen, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt, as well as in the three international locations Alicante, Paris and Shanghai. The wide range of topics covered by approximately 90 specialized patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law guaranteed success-oriented advice to clients even beyond the firm’s locations.

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Dr. Matthias Hofmann, Patentanwalt BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Dr. Matthias Hofmann
Patent Attorney		Florian Malescha, Patentanwalt bei BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Florian Malescha
Patent Attorney

BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT goes from strength to strength with two new partners

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Berlin/Munich, 13.12.2019 – Mixed law firm BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is taking on two new partners as we head into the new year: Sebastian Engels and Silke Freund. Both lawyers specialise in the fields of copyright, media law and trademark law, and as partners they will strengthen the patent and legal teams at the firm’s Berlin and Munich offices.

Dr Sebastian Engels advises clients on all strategic matters pertaining to trademark, copyright and competition law. He focuses in particular on offering comprehensive legal advice and representation to e-commerce and IT providers, and additionally specialises in the area of domain law. He also assists in pursuing and defending cases involving violations of intellectual property and competition law.

Based at the Berlin offices of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT, Engels will join Dr Andreas Dustmann and Dr Martin Schaefer as a new partner on the legal team, and Dr Ute Kilger and Dr Thomas Bittner on the patent attorney team. Sebastian Engels has been working at the Berlin offices of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT since passing the bar in 2011.

Silke Freund also has extensive experience in the fields of trademark law, copyright, general personal rights and freedom of expression. In her work, she focuses mainly on the enforcement and defence of trademarks. Ms Freund also assists her clients with global trademark portfolio management and advises them on the legality of marketing and advertising campaigns. Other focal points include defence of copyright, intellectual property rights and rights of use. She also works regularly in the area of freedom of expression, as well as print and visual reporting with regard to general personal rights considerations.

The Attorney at Law will be appointed as a new partner at the Munich offices of BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT. Silke Freund has worked with a number of prominent partner firms and major international law firms since 2002, focusing on media, copyright and trademark law. She moved to BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in 2013.

About BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT

With 25 patent attorney partners and 15 partners, BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT is one of the largest law firms specialising in intellectual property in Germany. The firm has branches in Munich, Bremen, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt as well as three international offices in Alicante, Paris and Shanghai. As a firm of around 90 patent attorneys and lawyers covering a broad spectrum of legal specialisms, clients are guaranteed effective, success-oriented advice that is not limited to the physical office locations.

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Dr. Sebastian Engels, Rechtsanwalt bei BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Dr. Sebastian Engels
Attorney at Law		Silke Freund, Rechtsanwältin bei BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT
Silke Freund
Attorney at Law

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