Dr. Eckart Warnke

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Qualification and position

  • German Attorney-at-Law, admission to the bar in 2005
  • Certified Specialist Lawyer in IP law since 2011
  • Partner according to the German Act on Partnership Companies

Specialisation

  • Protective rights: trademarks and other designations, patents and utility models, designs 
  • Unfair competition, antitrust law
  • Law of employees’ inventions, licensing and technology transfer
  • Strategic consulting and portfolio management
  • Litigation and arbitration
  • Customs monitoring/seizure and customs inspection measures at fairs

Languages

German, English

Biography

  • Law Studies at the Marburg Philipps-University
  • Law Studies at the Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-University
  • Mandatory Legal Preparatory Service in Munich
  • Doctorate in the field of software contracting
  • Practice with national and international law and patent firms, among others Lorenz Seidler Gossel as well as Boehmert & Boehmert in Munich
  • Establishment of the specialist law office Warnke Individual IP in Munich

Memberships

  • German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)
  • Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Proprieté Intellectuelle (AIPPI)
  • Licensing Executives Society (LES)

Publications

  • “Software with Defect of Title and Claim for Supplementary Performance acc. to Sec. 439 German Civil Code“, dissertation 2005

Lecturing

  • Law firm events in 2010 und 2011 in Munich: “Product piracy – anti-counterfeiting and its legal framework”
  • Law firm event in 2011 in Munich: “Effective Enforcement of Rights in Trademark Matters“
  • VPP Regional Group South 2019: “Patent Litigation Practice 2018”