Stephan Höfs

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Qualification and position

  • German Attorney-at-Law, admission to the bar in 2017
  • Associate

Specialisation

  • Protective Rights: trademarks, designs, utility models and patents
  • Unfair competition
  • Licensing
  • Domain names
  • Litigation and Proceedings before the EUIPO, GPTO and EU General Court

Languages

German, English, French

Biography

  • Law Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
  • Mandatory Legal Preparatory Service in Düsseldorf, Germany Practice with national and British law and patent firms, including a one-year secondment in London

Memberships

  • European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA)

Publications

  • GRUR-Prax 2024, 299 – Further exception to the rule that similarity in one area of perception is sufficient for similarity of signs
  • GRUR-Prax 2023, 562 – Likelihood of confusion due to phonetic similarity 
  • GRUR-Prax 2023, 229 – Pitfalls concerning intragroup evidence of genuine use
  • GRUR-Prax 2022, 464 – Reviving a forgotten name
  • GRUR-Prax 2020, 389 – Necessity of expert opinions in compulsory licensing proceedings MarkenR 2019, 290 – Underestimated and dangerous: Vague terms in the list of goods and services of EU trademarks