GERMANY Law and Practice Contributed by: Thomas Nägele, Steffen Henn, Anke Hofmann and Serpil Dilbaz, SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz
SZA Schilling, Zutt & Anschütz has been one of the most reputable German corporate law firms for al - most a century. With more than 130 attorneys, it ad - vises domestic and international clients on all relevant areas of corporate and commercial law. The IP/IT de - partment of SZA is located in Mannheim and Munich and currently has 13 attorneys in all areas of IP, IT and copyright, as well as data protection and trade secret law. With the establishment of its Asia Desk, SZA provides advice to Asian companies regarding
investments and business activities in Europe in all fields pertaining to commercial law, especially in rela - tion to the protection of intellectual property, includ - ing the registration, defence, judicial and out-of-court enforcement of trade marks, designs, patents and know-how. Further, in mutual co-operation with lead - ing local law firms, SZA also provides consultation in the field of industrial property rights for European companies regarding their business in Asia.
Authors
Thomas Nägele is a partner at SZA specialising in intellectual property, trade marks, copyright and unfair competition, patent litigation, information technology, cybersecurity and data protection, and heads the
Anke Hofmann is an associate at SZA and advises national and international companies on intellectual property law, information technology law as well as food law. She focuses on in- and out-of-court advice on trade
IP/IT department. He is a member of numerous professional bodies, such as the executive committee of IZG – Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geistiges Eigentum an der Universität Mannheim e.V. (Interdisciplinary Centre for Intellectual Property at the University of Mannheim). He has contributed to a large number of commentaries and articles in legal publications.
mark, design and unfair competition law cases, in particular in connection with M&A transactions and employee invention law disputes. She has written numerous articles for legal publications.
Serpil Dilbaz is an associate at SZA specialising in copyright, unfair competition law, trade mark law, information technology law, media law and litigation. She has made several contributions to German law journals.
Steffen Henn is a counsel at SZA and a certified expert attorney in intellectual property law. His practice covers copyright, unfair competition law, trade mark law, information technology law and litigation. He is a
member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) e.V. and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik. He writes regularly for legal publications.
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