Moritz Körner

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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