Moritz Körner
Qualification und Position
- German Attorney-at-Law, admission to the bar in 2013
- Certified Specialist Lawyer in IP law since 2018
- Counsel
Specialisation
- Protective rights: trademarks, designs, utility models and patents
- Unfair competition
- Drug advertising law
- Domain law
- Copyright law
- Research and development contracts Litigation and portfolio management
Languages
German, English, French
Biography
- Law Studies at the Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-University
- Law Studies at the Swiss University of Lausanne
- Mandatory Legal Preparatory Service in Munich and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Practice with the German law firm Preu Bohlig & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, including several secondments in German and international pharmaceutical companies
Memberships
- German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
- European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA): Member of the Design Committee
Publications
- Comments on the decision of the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice (4Ob 13/23z): On the distinction between allegations and value judgments in political debates on animal welfare, GRUR-Prax 2/2024, p. 53
- The protection of modular systems in design law – GCEU decision “building blocks from a toy building set II [LEGO]” (T-537/22), available at Lexology.com
- Comments on the decision of the ECJ (C-686/21): Applicable law for the decision of several trademark owners on the exercise of exclusive rights, GRUR-Prax 2023, p. 419
- Comments on the decision of the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice (4 Ob 72/21y): Features of a Registered Community Design – “Heat socks“, which are dictated by its technical function, GRUR-Prax 2022, p. 410
- The unregistered Community design: Independent protection of individual parts in the case of disclosure of an overall product – the ECJ decision “Ferrari/Mansory Design [Front kit]” (C-123/20), available at Lexology.com
- ICLG: Trademarks 2021, Chapter 12, Germany, available at the following link: https://iclg.com/practice-areas/trade-marks-laws-and-regulations/germany
- ICLG: Trademarks 2020, Chapter 16, Germany, available at the following link: https://iclg.com/practice-areas/trade-marks-laws-and-regulations/germany
- Lack of intention to use in trademark law – the FCJ decision “Da Vinci” (I ZR 46/19) and the ECJ decision “Sky/SkyKick” (C-371/18), available at Lexology.com
Lecturing
- Several years of holding lectures for patent attorney candidates as part of preparation courses