DR.JUR. OLIVER RUHL LL.M. (CAMBRIDGE)
PATENT AND UTILITY MODEL LAW,
in particular infringement proceedings, for example in the areas of mechanical engineering, plastics processing, electrical engineering, process engineering, logistics and general engineering
TRADEMARK AND DESIGN LAW,
including infringement proceedings, for example in the areas clothing, luxury and consumer goods, advertising materials, toys, sports and in the above mentioned technical areas
Coordination of cross-border infringement proceedings, in particular in England, France, Italy and Switzerland
Proceedings before the European Court of Justice
Competition and Copyright law
LICENCE AGREEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
- Law studies, in Constance, Munich and Cambridge, scholarship holder of the National Scholarship Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service
- Professional training in Munich, inter alia at the Patent Senate of the Higher Regional Court
- Scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich from 1995 to 1998
- Dissertation in patent law
- Attorney in a legal firm specialising in intellectual property in Munich from 1999 to 2001
- Attorney in an international law firm in Frankfurt and London from 2001 to 2004
- Consultant at the German Judicial Academy 2011
- Authorised to appear before all German Regional Courts and Higher Regional Courts
- Also admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (currently not practising in this function)
- Head of GRUR working group Northern Bavaria
- Author of a standard work on EU design law, which has been cited in a large number of court decisions (1. ed. 2006, 3. ed. 2019 together with Supreme Court Judge Dr. J. Tolkmitt)
