Publications

Professional Career

Currently:
Full professor (GRUR Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law with Information and IT-Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich.
2023
Call for a position of a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Munich and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society – stayed at LMU Munich.
Mar-May ‘23
Mar-Apr ’24
Engelberg Fellow at Engelberg Centre, NYU Law, New York City.
2020
International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, University of Columbia, New York City, in the Summer Term.
2016
Call for a Full professorship (GRUR Chair) for Private Law, Intellectual Property Law with Information and IT-Law, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich – accepted.
2016
Guest lecturer at ARCIALA, Singapore Management University (SMU) Law School.
2010
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil Law, Economic and Technology Law to the University of Bayreuth – stayed at the University of Bonn.
2010
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil, European and International Private and Economic law to the Friedrich Alexander University Nuernberg – denied – stayed at the University of Bonn.
2010&2017
Guest professor at the Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
2009-2011
Honorary professor at the University of Xiamen, China.
July 2007 –
Sep. 2016
Full professor (Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.
2007
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law, Director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn – accepted.
Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil law and Information/IT-law at the Leibniz-University Hannover – stayed at the University of Bonn.

Call for a Full Professorship (Chair) for Civil law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition law to the University of Mannheim – stayed at the University of Bonn.
Oct. 2006 –
Feb. 2007
Associated Professor, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.
April 2006 –
July 2006
Associated Professor, University of Augsburg.
Oct. 2003 –
Sep. 2006
Fellowship of the Bavarian State for the Post-doc thesis (Bayerischer Habilitationsfoerderpreis).
Since 2003
Member of the Faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC).
May 2002 –
Sept. 2003
Full-time research position as Head of the commonwealth department of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright- and competition law, Munich.
Apr. 2002
Public Notary Assessorship in Landshut for one month.
2001-Mar. 2002
Full-time research position as Head of the commonwealth department of the Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright- and competition law, Munich.
1999-2001
Part-time research assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright and competition law, Munich.
1997-1999
Research fellow at Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international patent-, copyright and competition law, Munich.

Education

2006
Habilitation at Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, acquired teaching authorization (venia legendi) for Civil Law, German and European Economic Law, Industrial and Intellectual Property Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law.
2003-2006
Post-doc thesis (Habilitation) on Richtiger Vertrag und lauterer Wettbewerb (Fair contracts and fair competition), Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl.

Fellowship of the Bavarian State.
(Bayerischer Habilitationsfoerderpreis).
2003-2004
LL.M.-studies, Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge (First Class LL.M.).
2001
Second State Examination in Munich. Prize of the Bavarian State Minister of Justice for the Examination Result.
1999-2001
Legal Clerkship at the Munich court of appeals (Rechtsreferendariat).
1997-1999
Ph.D.-studies at the Law Faculty of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich. Dissertation on Der Rechtsschutz des Datenbankherstellers im deutschen und europäischen Recht (Legal protection of database makers in German and European law), summa cum laude, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gerhard Schricker.
1997
First State Examination in Berlin.
1992-1997
Studies of Law at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Functions, Memberships, Activities

Since 2024
Representative of the Law Faculty in LMU’s AI hub (AI HUB@LMU).
Since 2023
Member of the Editorial Board of GRUR-Patent (one of GRUR’s sister journals specializing in patent law).
Since 2020
Editor of the German GRUR Journal (leading journal in the area of intellectual and industrial property law).
Since 2020
Member of the General Board and the Executive Committee (since 2024) as well as various Expert Committees of GRUR Association.
Since 2011
German ALAI group (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale) (from 2011-17 Member of the German ALAI Board).
2008-2016
Member of the Centre for European Economic Law of Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn.

Director of the degree course in Law & Economics.

Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Bonn Law Journal.
2008-2014
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the HumTEC-project (Law and Technology program) within the German „Excellency Initiative“ at the RWTH Aachen.
Since 2007
Expert for the German Universities‘ Association (DHV) in matters of copyright and publishing law.
Since 2007
Expert in different choice of law, contracts, IP and patent law cases before all relevant German courts (including the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Constitutional Court) as well as international and foreign courts (including the CJEU, the High Court for England and Wales, different U.S. courts as well as the ITC, arbitration panels in Paris and Hong-Kong). Expert for German and European institutions, such as the European Parliament, the State of Bavaria and other.

Awards And Prizes

2006-2011
Member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leopoldina Academy.
2004-2006
Fellowship of the Bavarian State (for the post-doc thesis).
2003
Research Scholarship Trinity Hall College, University of Cambridge;
Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar;
Bateman Scholar of Trinity Hall College;
Cambridge European Society Scholar.
2003/2004
Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
2000
Dieter Rampacher Prize of the German Max Planck Society (for the dissertation).

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