The academic staff of the LIPIT LLM Program includes not only renowned professors but also experienced practitioners active in the areas or IP and IT law. Such a mixture guarantees that students can benefit from various perspectives and gain both profound theoretical understanding of the law and valuable insights into the intricacies and challenges of its practical application. A number of courses are taught by professors or practitioners from other countries, which ensures that students become acquainted with viewpoints and approaches developed in different legal systems. Lecturers in alphabetical order
The list below is not exhaustive and may change slightly from year to year. Nevertheless, it provides a good idea about the mixture of professors and practitioners teaching at the LIPIT LLM Program.
Prof. Zsolt György Balogh
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Zsolt György Balogh is an associate professor at the Department for Information and Communications Technology of Faculty of Business Administration of the Corvinus University of Budapest. Served as a scientific advisor of Parliamentary Commissioner of Data Protection and Freedom of Information (1995-2001) and as a senior ICT-law advisor of the Chief Justice of the Curia of Hungary (2014-2015).
Dr. Balogh received his degrees as a lawyer and programmer mathematician at the Faculty of Law of University of Pécs and at the Faculty of Science of University of Szeged. He is a university lecturer since 1988. He also obtained experiences in information rights from 1995 to 2001 as advisor of the parliamentary commissioner for data protection and freedom of information. Dr. Balogh conducts the PhD program for ICT-Law of the Corvinus University and at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has been established the interdisciplinary Research Center for Information and Communications Technology Law. http://ikjk.hu
Dr. Balogh is a member of several international organizations, as the British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association (BILETA), International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL) and the European Academy of Law and ICT. https://ictlaw.weebly.com
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Dr. Max Baumgart
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Dr. Max Baumgart is an attorney at law (Rechtsanwalt) in Duisburg as well as Assistant Professor in European and national regulation of the energy transition at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University. Max studied law in Berlin, Geneva and Cologne and obtained a double degree doctorate in law from the universities of Basel and Cologne. His doctoral studies were funded by the Hanns Seidel foundation and his dissertation received the EEX Group Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Papers 2019. Before taking over his current positions and besides teaching in the LIPIT LLM Program, Max was conducting research and teaching at the University of Cologne, UC Berkeley, the China-EU School of Law in Beijing and at the University of Akureyri. Within his German Postgraduate Judicial Service Traineeship, Max worked for the EU Commission’s Directorate-General Energy in Brussels and at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. Max' fields of expertise include energy law, the application of competition law in digital markets, and EU economic law.
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Dr. Sven Bingert
Sven Bingert is an IT expert at the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen (GWDG). He studied physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and completed his doctorate in astrophysics at the University of Freiburg in 2009. After four years as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, he joined the GWDG and has been the deputy head of the eScience department of the (GWDG) since 2020, responsible for several national and international research projects. His research focuses on (research) data management and data science. Sven Bingert teaches at the Institute of Computer Science of Göttingen University.
Course topics:
- Introduction to IT, Computer Hardware
- Computer Software and Virtualization
- Service Computing and Web Services, Internet Protocol
- Security, Peer-to-Peer Networks, Blockchain (Bitcoin)
- Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures, DRM
- Internet of Things, Persistent Identifiers
- Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Machine Learning
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Dr. Tobias Born
Tobias Born is a lawyer and member of Clifford Chance's International Telecommunications, Media & Technology Group and Tech Group. Tobias joined Clifford Chance coming from Baker McKenzie in January 2024. Before that he was Head of Data Protection for the EMEA marketplaces of eBay.
Tobias advises domestic and international companies on all aspects of IT law, data protection law and e-commerce law related matters. This includes IT and data protection law related topics in connection with cross-border M&A transactions and carve-outs. Tobias' practice focuses on complex data protection matters. He supports clients in connection with damage and other data protection law related claims of data subjects and administrative (fine) proceedings of data protection authorities. Tobias also advises on digitalization, cyber security, digital media and tech related legal and regulatory topics.
During his legal clerkship he practiced at the Data Protection Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia and at international law firms in Dusseldorf and Cologne, where he worked in the field of IT and data protection law. He studied law at the Universities of Bielefeld, La Trobe in Melbourne and Muenster where he also received his doctoral degree for a thesis on data protection authorities.
Tobias has been recognized one of the "Best Lawyers/Ones to Watch" in two categories (data protection law and IT law) by German newspaper Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Tobias Born is the author of numerous essays and articles on data protection law.
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- Legal bases for processing of personal data, consent as basis for data processing;
- International data transfers;
- Data protection officers and data protection authorities and their powers;
- Right to compensation and liability, administrative fines and criminal sanctions;
- Job prospects and opportunities for data protection lawyers.
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Dr. Mira Burri
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Dr. Mira Burri is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She teaches international intellectual property, media, internet and trade law. Mira’s current research interests are in the areas of digital trade, culture, copyright, data protection and internet governance. Mira is the principle investigator of the project ‘The Governance of Big Data in Trade Agreements’, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She consults the European Parliament, UNESCO, the WEF and others on issues of digital innovation and cultural diversity.
Mira has co-edited the publications Trade Governance in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press 2012) and Big Data and Global Trade Law (Cambridge University Press 2020). She is the author of Public Service Broadcasting 3.0 (Routledge 2015).
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Nicolas M. Dumont, LL.M.
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Partner at GvW Graf von Westphalen with extensive experience in Intellectual Property and Life Sciences law. Focus on cross-border patent and trademark infringement litigation. Corresponding client advice on enforcement and defense strategies, especially for US and Asian multinationals. Regular pro bono work to contribute professional know-how to non- governmental organizations. Significant insights into US intellectual property system through visiting scholarship at the George Washington University Law School and secondment in the legal department of global pharmaceutical company Allergan.
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Transnational Enforcement of IP and IT Law
Week 1 (1) Registration of rights, i.e. patents, utility models, know-how and trade secrets, trademarks, designs and copyrights. (2) Enforcement of rights, i.e. authorization requests, take down notices, warning letters, cease and desist declarations, protective briefs, preliminary injunctions and main actions. (3) Alternate enforcement means, e.g. mediation and arbitration, boarder seizure measures, enforcement under criminal law.
Week 2 (1) Selected further topics, e.g. German unfair competition law, patent and trademark opposition proceedings, unitary patent package, standard essential patents and supplementary protection certificates. (2) Case studies.
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Dr. Jan Ellermann
Jan Ellermann works as a Senior Specialist in Europol's Data Protection Function and provides operational data protection related guidance across the organisation. This includes advising the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) as well as the European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) in the continuous development of new and innovative initiatives.
Jan joined Europol in late 2007 after starting his professional career as a research assistant and lawyer in Germany, later serving his country as a Public Prosecutor. He holds a doctoral degree in law connected to Europol and the FBI which he obtained at Göttingen University, Germany, and a Master in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation from the University College in Dublin (UCD), Ireland.
Jan has published various articles on data protection and information security related topics and is regularly invited to share his professional experience at national and international levels. Jan is passionate about data protection and is one of the initiators of the Europol Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN), i.e. an online collaboration platform which has been developed with the aim to involve stakeholders from various backgrounds in order to increase both, freedom and security. EDEN includes law enforcement as well as representatives of relevant private parties, academia, NGOs etc. It can be used as a channel to present projects, best practises and events linked to data protection in a law enforcement context.
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Don Ferguson
Don is a CISO and Principal Product Manager for security, privacy and compliance at an international software company in Austria. Don has practiced as a civil litigator in Canada for 7 years and remains a member of the bar in Canada. Don’s research focus is on cybersecurity law, trade secret law, and privacy law, with a practical emphasis on corporate espionage and on critical infrastructure protection.
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Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster
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Prof. Dr. Gloria González Fuster is a Research Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)’s Faculty of Law and Criminology. Co-Director of the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) Research Group, and member of the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), she investigates legal issues related to privacy, personal data protection and security, and teaches ‘Data Policies in the European Union’ at the Data Law option of the Master of Laws in International and European Law (PILC) of VUB’s Institute for European Studies (IES). She is currently contributing to the research project o contributing to the research project Articulating Law, Technology, Ethics and Politics: Issues of Enforcement and Jurisdiction of EU Data Protection Law under and beyond the General Data Protection Regulation (ALTEP-DP).
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- Evolution of privacy and data protection law, overview of the current situation globally;
- Main international and EU legal instruments on data protection law;
- Objectives, material and territorial scope, logic and main definitions of the GDPR;
- Data processing principles, in particular accountability and transparency;
- Data subject rights: general modalities, limitations and derogations;
- Specific rights: access, rectification, objection to processing, data portability, erasure;
- Remedies available to data subjects.
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Dr. Arina Gorbatyuk
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Dr. Arina Gorbatyuk is a postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), Belgium, working on her research project ‘Registration of IP: The Issue of Transparency of IP Ownership’. Her research interests include IP ownership, IP transparency, and open innovation. She coordinates and teaches the course ‘International and European Patent Law’ of the KU Leuven Master of Intellectual Property and ICT Law. She defended her PhD thesis ‘Rethinking IP Ownership in the Context of Open Innovation’ in 2019. In her PhD research, she focused on the challenges collaborating partners encounter while allocating the ownership of jointly developed IP, in particular patents and trade secrets. She had an opportunity to join the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy of New York University in 2017 and the Munich Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2022 as a visiting researcher.
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Prof. (NNU/XHU) Dr. Frank A. Hammel
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Prof. (NNU/XHU) Dr. Hammel is a Certified Lawyer for Intellectual Property Law admitted to the Bar in Berlin/Germany. He is practicing as partner of the law firm WEITNAUER in Berlin, advising nationally and internationally operating companies in the field of IP / IT - with a focus on digital change, Industry 4.0, IoT - as well as in managing international brand portfolios. Furthermore, he is a University Professor giving lectures in IP and IT law in China at Nanjing NNU and at Chendgu XHU as well as in Germany at University of Applied Science Wildau. He lectured as a guest professor at Chinese European School of Law (CESL), China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Nanjing Universität (NJU), Chinese University of Hongkong (CUHK), City University of Hongkong (CityU), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, National Law University Dehli (NLUD).
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Dr. Jakub Harašta
Dr. Jakub Harašta is an assistant professor at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. His research focuses on cybersecurity and legal informatics. He graduated in law (master’s and doctoral degrees) and security studies (master’s degree). He was a visiting research fellow at Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions (University of Haifa, 2015) and visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cyber Law & Policy (University of Haifa, 2018). His short-term research stays included Exeter Law School (UK), NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (Estonia), and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Germany).
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Stephan Ising
Stephan Ising began his professional career with an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. He then studied industrial engineering with a focus on mechanical engineering at Westfälische Hochschule and University of Duisburg-Essen. During his studies, he worked as a student trainee for Siemens AG and thyssenkrupp AG. Since 2015, he has supported thyssenkrupp Intellectual Property GmbH in all IP strategy tasks and is heading the IP Strategy / IP Research department since July 2020.
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Dr. Frantisek Kasl
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Frantisek Kasl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Education, Research and Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies at the Faculty of Informatics and at the Institute of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law of the Masaryk University (Czech Republic). Since 2017, he has been the deputy editor-in-chief of the Review of Law and Technology and a member of the working group for ISO/TC 307 standardization "Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies" at the Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing. He participated in a number of national and international research projects concerning personal data protection, cybersecurity, cybercrime and smart grid. Since 2017, he has been delivering lectures on various topics, including privacy, personal data protection, data economy, media law, blockchain technologies and online gambling. Frantisek has authored and co-authored a number of national reports, research studies, books and articles on these topics. He also has a background in international economics and enterprise valuation and is a member of the European Association of Law & Economics.
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Dr. Matthias Lejeune
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Attorney at law in Munich, with more than 34 years of experience as In-House Counsel for renowned companies (e.g. Siemens, Airbus). Long term experience in national and international IT law and IP law, Data Protection law, Cybersecurity law and Contract law. Specialist in the laws of the United States of America in the aforementioned fields of law. Member of the German Association of Law and Informatics („DGRI“), the German/American lawyers association and of the legal committee of the Chamber of Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria („Rechtsausschuss der IHK“).
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IP law (Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secret laws) of the United States of America in comparison with the relevant laws of the European Union and Germany.
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Dr. Gabriel Lentner
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Gabriel M. Lentner is an Assistant Professor of Law at Danube University Krems (Austria) and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School (USA). He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Vienna School of Law, where he also serves as a Lecturer in Law. Gabriel received a diploma with highest distinction in European Studies from the University of Vienna in 2010 and a diploma in Law & Logic from Harvard Law School and the European University Institute in Florence in 2013. From September 2019 to June 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. In 2020 he was awarded the Science Prize of the State of Lower Austria. His main research interests lie in International Investment/IP and EU Law as well as Public International Law. Gabriel has published various articles in the field and speaks regularly at international conferences.
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Dr. Amandine Léonard
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Dr. Amandine Léonard is an Emile Noël Fellow (post-doctoral) at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, NYU School of Law. She holds a PhD from the KU Leuven (Belgium) and is an affiliated researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT&IP Law (CiTiP). At NYU, she is conducting research on the issue of joint liability for patent infringement in the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Her particular fields of interests are: the fundamental rationale and objective of intellectual property laws (patent, copyright and trademark), the approach adopted by the United States and national states in Europe regarding intellectual property laws and their limitations and exceptions, the convergences and divergences in terms of systems of enforcement, as well as the interface between competition/antitrust law and intellectual property law.
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Dr. Andreas Lober
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Dr. Andreas Lober is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and co-head of the Practice Group IP/IT/Media. He advises national and international companies in the media and technology sectors with respect to IP and IT law. Dr. Andreas Lober studied law at the University of Tübingen and the University of Aix-en-Provence (France). He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Tübingen with a dissertation in the context of media law. He was admitted to the German Bar in 2001.
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- AI and robot law;
- Limitation of IP rights by antitrust law;
- Practical problems of IP cross-border enforcement;
- Recent legal developments in games law
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Dr. Pavel Loutocký
Pavel Loutocký is a post-doctorate researcher and head of the section at the Centre for Education, Research and Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University. He is also a post-doctorate researcher at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, and a lecturer within the Cyber Security study programme at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technologies, Brno University of Technology. He participated in a number of national and international research projects and delivered lectures concerning electronic identification and electronic documents, online consumer protection, cybersecurity, cybercrime, online dispute resolution, online platforms, electronic contracting, domain names, eJustice and eGovernment. Pavel has authored and co-authored a number of national reports, research studies, books and articles on these topics. He has completed a year of studies at the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland and a PhD at the Institute of Law and Technology, Masaryk University, Faculty of Law. Since 2012, he has been a regular member of selected working groups within the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
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Dean S. Marks
Dean Marks is a copyright and content protection attorney with expertise in the film and media industry. He served as in-house counsel for more than 25 years with Warner Bros. and Time Warner, most recently as Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property. He established and guided business practices with respect to copyright, digital rights management and content protection/anti-piracy issues and worked extensively on the introduction of the DVD and Blu-ray formats and protection measures for digital streaming of audiovisual content. He also worked on domestic and international copyright policy and legislation both in Time Warner’s European public policy office in Brussels and as a private sector adviser to the U.S. government delegation to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Diplomatic Conference, which resulted in the adoption of the WIPO Internet Treaties in 1996. From 2015 to 2017, Dean was Deputy General Counsel and Chief, Global Content Protection for the Motion Picture Association, where he headed a global team to safeguard film and television content from all forms of piracy. More recently, Dean has served as an expert for WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement. Dean received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Stanford University and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
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Dr. Jakub Míšek
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Jakub Míšek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. His main field of research is privacy and personal data protection. He also focuses on legal regulation of public sector information and open data. Since February 2015, Jakub has worked at the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic as a member of the Open Data project team. His main tasks are licensing open data, relations between open data and personal data protection, and the creation of legislative proposals for open data in the Czech Republic. Since 2019, Jakub has been a member of the appeal commission of the Office for Personal Data Protection.
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Drini Morina
Drini Morina, M.Sc., M.A., is a research and teaching associate at the Institute for Innovation Research, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at the Natural Science Faculty of the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. His current research is related to AI, Innovation, IT and IP Law and his teaching includes sustainable finance and statistics. He is also Co-Founder and CEO of the software Start-Up StatWay UG, which develops AI-based automated data analysis solutions and recently won a state-run high-tech entrepreneur promotion program with a six-digit funding. Earlier, he was a statistical consultant for various companies and organizations, e.g., Volkswagen Financial Services AG, the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine and the Consulate General of Germany in Shanghai. He studied Applied Statistics and International Economics at the University of Göttingen and at Fudan University in Shanghai and loves to paint.
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Dr. Matěj Myška
Matěj Myška is an associate professor (docent) at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (www.cyber.law.muni.cz). His professional focus lies in ICT law and intellectual property, particularly digital copyright. He is the main organizer of the national conference Days of Czech ICT Law (www.cpit.law.muni.cz) and member of the organizing committee of the international conference Cyberspace (www.cyberspace.muni.cz). Dr. Myška is the editor-in-chief of the first Czech law journal specializing in ICT law, the Review of Law and Technology (Revue pro právo a technologie, www.revue.law.muni.cz). He also assists the Technology Transfer Office of Masaryk University (www.ctt.muni.cz) as a lawyer. In his latest book he dealt with the exceptions and limitations in the digital environment (Výjimky a omezení autorského práva v prostředí digitálních sítí, Wolters Kluwer, 2020).
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Prof. Dr. Jan Bernd Nordemann
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Jan Bernd Nordemann is a partner of the German intellectual property law firm NORDEMANN (www.nordemann.de) and works at its Berlin and Potsdam office, where he specializes in copyright, trademark, design, unfair competition, and anti-trust (competition) law. Founded as a spin-off in 2020, today ca. 20 partners and associates work for the NORDEMANN firm.
Jan is considered one of the leading German copyright lawyers (German JUVE Manual 2021/2022; German weekly journal WIRTSCHAFTSWOCHE 2022). BEST LAWYERS INTERNATIONAL votes him among the top practitioners in the fields of entertainment, IP and media. In copyright law, Prof. Nordemann advises and represents clients for example in enforcement, rights clearance and licensing. He works in all copyright fields such as film, games, music, publishing, and arts.
Since 1999, Jan Bernd Nordemann lectures at the Humboldt University Berlin on copyright, trademark and unfair competition law and was awarded an honorary professorship.
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Dr. Anke Nordemann-Schiffel
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Anke Nordemann-Schiffel is an expert in the fields of copyright law, trade mark law, press law and competition law, as well as in international law. She has many years of experience in cross-border disputes and in the co-ordination of international judicial and administrative proceedings in trade mark law, competition law and copyright law. Another focus of Anke’s work is providing strategic advice to holders of international trade mark portfolios in a wide variety of different industries, such as pharmaceuticals and media. She advises trade mark proprietors from the application process onwards and represents them before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office as well as in infringement proceedings before the German and European courts. Anke also provides strategic and legal advice to start-ups as well as traditional companies on the implementation of new product developments and marketing strategies as well as on matters related to copyright and licensing contracts (e.g., to film producers, scientific publishers and fiction publishers).
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Dr. Claudia Pappas
Dr. Claudia Pappas graduated in law from the University of Freiburg (Germany), wrote her doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and spent her legal clerkship in Berlin. She was a partner with the IP law firm Weber & Sauberschwarz in Düsseldorf from 1997 to 2015. She joined ThyssenKrupp in 2016 and is heading the Trademark Department, being globally responsible for all trademarks, designs and IP contracts of the group. She is specialized in Intellectual Property Law.
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Prof. Radim Polcak
Radim Polcak is the vice-rector of Masaryk University (MU) and the head of the Institute of Law and Technology at the Law Faculty at MU (Czech Republic). He is the general chair of the Cyberspace conference and the founder of the Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology and the Review of Law and Technology. He is a founding fellow of the European Law Institute and the European Academy of Law and ICT, a panellist at the .eu ADR arbitration court and a member of various governmental and scientific expert and advisory bodies and project consortia around the EU. He also served as a Special Adviser for Robotics and Data Protection Policy to the European Commission. Radim has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific papers, books and articles namely on topics related to cyberlaw and legal philosophy.
Course topics:
- Cybersecurity and Cyber-defence;
- AI liability, including personalised chatbots, autonomous processing of data and data trusts, etc;
- Jurisdictional issues in e-commerce
- Liability of internet intermediaries (ISPs)
- Roles and responsibilities of internet platforms
- Legal acting in e-commerce (B2B and B2C e-contracting, eID)
- Domain name disputes
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Barbara Reilly
Barbara Reilly is an American lawyer who has been working as an IP and IT law specialist in Germany for more than thirty years. For the last 22 years, she has worked in the legal department of Siemens AG in Munich. For more than ten of those years, she co-headed Siemens’ global Technology Practice Group with about 200 members from Siemens’ legal and patent departments world-wide. She is specialized in the areas of software law, IP and IT issues in M&A transactions and
international R&D arrangements. She received her law degree (Juris Doctor) from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Before joining Siemens, she worked as in-house counsel for Schering AG and Krone AG in Berlin.
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Dr. Jürgen Rösch
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Dr. Jürgen Rösch works as an Innovation Consultant, Lecturer, Researcher and Author. His main job is to help companies become more innovative, using methods like agility, design thinking, economics and lean start-up. His research focuses on digital economics and the platform economy, and the implications for businesses and regulators. Jürgen holds a PH.D. (German doctorate) in competition economics, and Master degrees in both international economics and international business, which he gained while studying in Germany and Australia. He took his first steps in the digital economy in 1999 when he worked for one of the first big online shops in Germany.
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The course looks at the economic rational behind IP and IT law
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Dr. Sachiko Scheuing
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Dr. Sachiko Scheuing is the European Privacy Officer for Acxiom, an IPG company and a global leader in marketing services. She is currently serving her second term as the Co-Chairwoman of the Federation of European Direct and interactive Marketing Association (FEDMA), based in Brussels. With more than 20 years’ experience in the field of marketing intelligence, and as a former Chief Analyst, Sachiko combines theoretical and practical experience of the marketing and advertisement industries to manage Acxiom’s European government affairs and compliance. She also provides national and European level advice to clients and colleagues on data protection and privacy matters, and also contributes articles to trade magazines and academic journals. In addition to FEDMA, Sachiko is active in many European and global privacy and marketing associations, as well as think-tanks.
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Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler
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Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler (1960-2023) studied Law and Economics in Frankfurt am Main, Hagen, Geneva and Lausanne. He was a fully tenured Professor of Civil Law, Commercial and Economic Law, Comparative Law, and Multimedia and Telecommunication Law at the University of Goettingen, where he was mainly occupied with legal issues regarding E-Commerce, ie, Internet and Telecommunication Law. In 2004 he was elected a fully tenured Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Goettingen. Apart from teaching, he published various books (more than 20), commentaries (annotated codes), and more than 400 papers in law reviews as well as expert legal opinions. Further, he was a co-editor of international journals on copyright law, and founder and editor of JIPITEC, an open access-based journal for intellectual property rights and E-Commerce, which won several awards by research foundations.
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Dr. Thomas Stögmüller, LL.M. (Berkeley)
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Dr. Thomas Stögmüller, LL.M. (Berkeley), is an attorney admitted to practice in Germany and is a certified specialist in IT law. He studied in Munich and Berkeley, worked as In-House Counsel in the telecoms department of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transport and Technology and has practised as a lawyer in Munich and Frankfurt since 1995. Thomas Stögmüller specializes in advice concerning IT and Telecommunications law, Copyright and Software law as well as Data Protection and Antitrust law. He supports German and international companies in drafting, reviewing and negotiating license, outsourcing and support agreements, and advises on current legal topics such as cloud computing and GDPR compliance.
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The course “Advanced Information Technology Law” focuses on selected topics of European Information Technology law. It explains in detail copyright protection of software and discusses relevant concepts such as the principle of exhaustion and the interpretation of the right of communication to the public by the Court of Justice of the European Union. License clauses and open source licenses will be analysed. Another issue is the tiered liability of intermediary service providers for third-party content. The course will not only teach the applicable European law and discuss current landmark cases but will also analyse actual software license agreements and terms of use for cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. The students are invited to contribute to the course and to draft and negotiate a license agreement.
Also: - Protection of computer software, including copyright, patent, trademark, unfair competition and trade secret law;
- Software agreements: licensing models, types of agreements, essential provisions;
- E-Commerce and liability of service providers;
- Civil and criminal liability in IT law;
- Telecommunications law;
- Domain name regulation.
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Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll
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Peter-Tobias Stoll holds the Jean Monnet Chair for European Union and Global Sustainable Development through Law and is a Professor for Public and Public International Law and at the University of Göttingen. He co-directs the Institute for International Law and European Law and heads the Department for International Economic and Environmental Law. Further, he serves as one of the Directors of the Institute for Agricultural Law at Faculty and as the German Director of the Sino-German Institute for Legal Studies of the Universities of Nanjing and Göttingen at Nanjing University. His research focus is on international and European economic and environmental law.
Tobias extensively published on international economic and environmental law, including in the Heidelberg Journal, RGDIP, Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Max-Planck- Encyclopaedia for Public International Law and he co-edited the Max-Planck-Commentaries on World Trade Law and is one of the General Editors for the second edition. He co-chairs the Interest Group on International Economic Law of the European Society of International Law and has been one of the conveners of a Study Group on Preferential Trade Agreements of the International Law Association.
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Prof. Dan Svantesson
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Professor Dan Svantesson (Faculty of Law, Bond University) specialises in international aspects of the IT society, a field within which he has given keynotes, lectures and presentations in Australia, Asia, North America and Europe.
Dan held an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016) for a project addressing Internet jurisdiction and is an Editor for International Data Privacy Law, published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Svantesson has written a range of books and articles, most recently: Solving the Internet Jurisdiction Puzzle (OUP 2017) and Information Sovereignty: Data Privacy, Sovereign Powers and the Rule of Law (EE 2017, co-authored with Radim Polcak).
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The Internet is, in itself, international, and any act involving the Internet is, with few exceptions, international in one way or another. Students will be introduced to, and asked to discuss, various international aspects of Internet law. In particular, focus is placed on both private international law and the Internet and public international law and the Internet, as well as some matters of Internet governance and Internet regulation. As part of the course, the students get to perform detailed research on a specific topic of their interest, within the scope of the course. Having been given guidance throughout the course, and having had the benefit of the review process in place for the course, students should be able to produce a paper of high academic quality, suitable for submission in legal periodicals. Students will present their research at the end of the course.
This course should appeal to anybody with an interest in internet law, as well as to those with an interest in international law. As the course is research-focused, it will constitute a suitable starting point for anybody considering undertaking a research degree in the future.
Particular attention will be directed at, for example, the following topics:
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Dr. Jakob Valvoda
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Dr. Jakob Valvoda is a patent attorney at BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT and a computer scientist. He studied computer science at the RWTH Aachen and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and received his PhD on the subject of virtual reality at the RWTH Aachen. Accordingly, the focus of his practice as a patent attorney lies in the area of software protection and protection of computer-implemented inventions, for example in the fields of artificial intelligence, blockchain, information security, cryptography and computer graphics. Jakob Valvoda has extensive experience in proceedings before the German and European Patent Offices, international patent offices, the German Federal Patent Court and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office. He also advises clients on technical issues relating to open source software and internet piracy. Dr. Jakob Valvoda holds lectures for the European Patent Academy of the European Patent Office and on the openHPI platform of the of Hasso Plattner Institute.
Course topics:
The course will focus on the topic of software protection in the digital age. We will discuss the general suitability of IP rights for protecting software and detail the examination and patenting practice for computer-implemented inventions (CII) in various jurisdictions. This will include a discussion of case law on CII of the boards of appeal of the EPO. The course will conclude with an overview of challenges on IP systems imposed by the so-called 4th Industrial Revolution and possible solutions.
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- Suitability of IP rights for software protection;
- Protecting software with copyright means;
- Protecting software with patent law means;
- Challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) for IP protection.
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Dr. Winfried Veil
Dr. Winfried Veil (47) studied law at the University of Mainz, Germany. He took his doctor’s degree at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer with a thesis on the democratic deficit within the European Union and possible remedies by direct democracy. From 2001 to 2010 he was working as a lawyer in several international law firms specializing in commercial administrative law and construction law, most recently at CMS Hasche Sigle. Since 2010 Winfried Veil is working for the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany. From 2013 to 2015 he was part of the Project Group on Data Protection Reform in Germany and Europe which was negotiating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on behalf of Germany. Since then he has been scientifically engaged with the topic, is co-editor and author of a commentary book on the GDPR and lecturer at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and the Fern Universität Hagen.
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Dr. Valerie Verdoodt
Dr. Valerie Verdoodt is a postdoctoral fellow in law at the London School of Economics (LSE). Valerie’s research focuses on the legal and fundamental rights questions originating from the development of new media and technology, in particular (but not exclusively) regarding the protection and participation of children online. She also teaches Information technology and the law, Cyberlaw and EU Law at the LSE.
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Mladen Vukmir
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Mladen specializes in Intellectual Property and Information and Telecommunications law, Licensing, Commercial law, litigation and ADR. Mladen has served as a consultant to various domestic and international organisations such as the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Croatian Government, the World Bank, the European Commission CARDS program, and WIPO, and has served at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Standing Committee for Expertise. Currently he focuses primarily on strategic advising of expanding central European businesses, and is an active mentor on the local start-up scene. His consulting work revolves around the topics of immaterial asset management, IP rights portfolio building and management, and complex branding and advertising issues.
Mladen practices intellectual property law in Zagreb, Croatia, where he founded the law firm VUKMIR & ASSOCIATES in 1991. He obtained his law degree from the University of Zagreb and his Masters degree in IP from Franklin Pierce Law. Among other stints, he worked for the California-based law firm Fenwick & West, the Italian law firm Pavia e Ansaldo and for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization prior to founding VUKMIR & ASSOCIATES. He was retained as an expert advisor by the Croatian IP Office during its founding, and later was appointed a patent and trademark agent before the CSIPO. He has served as a Member of the Patent and Topographies board of Appeals and the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Croatian Patent and Trademark Bar.
Mladen currently serves as an ECTA 2nd Vice President and ECTA Council member. He also serves as the President of the AIPPI - Croatian Group. He is a former INTA Board member and the Chair of the INTA Brands and Innovation Committee. His work in ADR involves various aspects, where he serves as an arbitrator and a mediator at the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, a Distinguished Neutral at the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), as a neutral on the INTA Panel of Neutrals and as a panellist at the WIPO Domain Name Administrative Panel (UDRP). Mladen is an International Mediation Institute (IMI) accredited meditator and Croatian Mediation Association (HUM) trainer.
Course topics:
The anti-counterfeiting course is divided into a more theoretical, legal segment taught by Nicolas Dumont and a more practical, hands-on segment taught by Mladen Vukmir. The practical part will develop on the legal foundations set by the first lecturer and take the students a step further, by exploring the practicalities of combatting piracy and counterfeiting. The business realities and budgetary constraints will be discussed, as will the technological basis for modern anti-counterfeiting (AC) activities. Industry case studies and specifics will be studied and discussed. An overview of the business and governmental frameworks that are preconditions for successful AC programs will be studied and dissected in this practical segment of the course. The aim of the course is to convey to the students the characteristics, possible shortcomings and challenges of the present system within the broader legal framework of treaties and legislative solutions laid out in the first segment. Finally, certain practical examples and case studies will be used to bring the students closer to being able to strategically approach the challenges of piracy and counterfeiting.
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe, LL.M. (Virginia)
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Prof. Dr. Wiebe studied law at the University of Hannover from 1981 to 1987 and at the University of Virginia (U.S.A.) where he received the LL.M. degree in 1988. Having obtained the doctoral degree in 1991 with a comparative work on the protection of computer programmes in the U.S. and Germany he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Legal Informatics at the University of Hannover. In 2001 his habilitation was accepted based on a work on electronic contracting.
From 2002 to 2009 he was the head of the Department of Information Law and Intellectual Property Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Besides several guest professorships he was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School from January to June 2008 and at the University of Nanjing, China, in October 2012. Since May 2009 he is a professor of competition law, intellectual property law and media law at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Main areas of research are information and communication technology law, copyright and intellectual property law, and unfair competition law. He participated in several nationally and EU funded research projects, in recent years with a special focus on data protection and copyright law.
Prof. Wiebe ist head of „Forschungsverein Infolaw“ in Vienna. He is co-organisor of the Austrian ICT Law Day and the Competition Law Forum, both annual events in Vienna. He is also a co-organisor of the annual Summer School on European ICT and IP Law, taking place in Reichenau, Austria. He also organises the Göttingen International Research Forum on ICT and IP Law, providing an annual forum for young researchers from all over Europe.
Prof. Wiebe is on the scientific board of several IT and media law journals in Germany and other European countries. He is an author of several German and English legal articles and books and co-editor of handbooks. He was Vice President of the German computer law association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik, DGRI e.V.) from 2005 to 2011. He is also a member of the German Society of intellectual property law (GRUR e.V.), the German society for comparative law (Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung) and the Austrian chapter of the ALAI.
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Dr. Niklas im Winkel
Niklas has studied economics and social psychology, while his PhD thesis focused on experimental research on new political voting systems. He started his career as an Assistant Researcher for the Chair of Competition Policy & Media Economics at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg. After that, he worked in the Future of Democracy department of the Bertelsmann Foundation, consulting government ministries and political parties, while analyzing the effects of increasing social inequality on democracy. From 2018 to 2020, Niklas worked at the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform, where he collaborated with a former SPD presidential nominee Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan on developing, organizing and moderating high-level political events, dealing with sustainable EU-level politics and progressive guidelines for economic and social policy.
Currently, Niklas is an internal consultant for impact analysis, evaluation and solution-oriented work at the Foundation “Haus der kleinen Forscher”, an Institution of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In addition, he is also a Lecturer for Economics at Berlin School of Economics and Law.
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Hendrik Witt
Hendrik is an attorney at law at the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He regularly advises multinational and domestic clients on national and international data protection law, technology-driven innovation and digital projects. This includes representing companies in proceedings before regulators and courts. In addition, he has substantial experience in advising on M&A transactions, on commercial aspects of IT/IP law as well as on cyber security and data privacy compliance aspects.
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Dr. Stephan Wolke
Dr. Stephan Wolke studied physics, philosophy and macroeconomics at Bonn University and graduated with a Doctorate in Physics. He spent the first five years of his professional career at McKinsey & Company. After founding (and having sold) two own businesses, Stephan served in several functions at Bayer AG as well as Danaher Corp. He joined ThyssenKrupp in 2011 and is on corporate level responsible for Intellectual Property & Services (Head of Corporate Intellectual Property at ThyssenKrupp) as well as the head of management board of ThyssenKrupp Intellectual Property GmbH. He is 52 and father of three sons.
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Dr. Anna Zeiter, LL.M. (Stanford)
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Dr. Anna Zeiter is the Chief Privacy Officer of eBay Inc. Before joining eBay in 2014 Anna Zeiter graduated with honors from the LL.M. Program in Law, Science & Technology at Stanford Law School. From 2009 to 2013 Anna worked as a lawyer for two international law firms in Hamburg (DLA Piper and Norton Rose Fulbright), specializing in data protection, IT and ecommerce law. Before working as an attorney Anna Zeiter did her Ph.D. in the field of free speech and media law at the University of Hamburg. Anna Zeiter regularly gives speeches at international data protection conferences, teaches at universities (e.g. at the University of Bern, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Geneva), and publishes articles on current data protection issues, e.g. in the Stanford Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the European Data Protection Law Review.
Transnational Intellectual Property Contracts: IP license agreements (with a focus on trademark licese agreements), IP assignment agreements, Non-disclosure agreements, R&D Agreements, Coexistence agreements, Arbitration clauses, Jurisdiction clauses, Choice of law clauses, and national and regional IP law variations that have to be taken into account.