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Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Unfair Competition - Germany
What the Team is Known For
HARTE-BAVENDAMM boasts an outstanding trade mark and unfair competition team that often acts for clients from the fashion, pharmaceutical and retail industries. It also advises a number of companies from the food sector. The firm is particularly active on contentious matters, representing clients in trade mark enforcement, opposition and infringement proceedings, and offering notable experience in handling 3D trade marks. HARTE-BAVENDAMM also advises on deceptive advertising, passing off and unfair competition matters, further assisting clients with prosecution matters.
Strengths
HARTE-BAVENDAMM is a first-class IP boutique that combines the highest level of expertise, experience and service in trade mark and competition law.
Above all, the lawyers at HARTE-BAVENDAMM focus on providing you with very pragmatic, business- and solution-oriented advice.
HARTE-BAVENDAMM has highly flexible and creative lawyers who get very much into your business and market.
HARTE-BAVENDAMM has excellent lawyers who have brilliant minds.
The team at HARTE-BAVENDAMM have a very specific and high knowledge of unfair competition law and trade mark law topics.
Work Highlights
HARTE-BAVENDAMM advised Deutsches Rotes Kreuz on the protection of the 'Red Cross' in Germany, including in a legal dispute at Hamburg's regional court against a publisher over a book cover.
Notable practitioners
Henning Harte-Bavendamm has an excellent reputation for his extensive experience and academic work in the intellectual property space. He continues to advise clients on unfair competition matters including deceptive advertising issues.
Henning Harte-Bavendamm is a very good litigator and mediator.
Michael Goldmann frequently provides strategic advice on trade mark matters and also represents clients in trade mark litigation. He further assists with unfair competition matters and demonstrates notable expertise in trade mark registration, including 3D marks.
Michael Goldmann really gets into the details and is creative in a legal sense. He has a good feel for his mandates.
Michael Goldmann is a good lawyer who knows every detail.
Michael Goldmann is a brilliant lawyer.
Michael Goldmann is so knowledgeable. He knows everything about trade mark law.
Michael Goldmann's style of drafting submissions to court is excellent. His work is of the highest level.
Andrea Jaeger-Lenz acts for clients on design and trade mark applications as well as trade mark portfolio management topics and infringement proceedings. Her clients include prominent international and domestic players from the pharmaceutical, food and transport sectors.
Andrea Jaeger-Lenz has excellent judgement, and is confident and experienced in making swift assessments of conflicts and in the development of solutions.
Andrea Jaeger-Lenz is a really good lawyer.
Cathérine Elkemann assists with a wide range of trade mark issues, including opposition and invalidity proceedings as well as infringement litigation and non-contentious prosecution matters. She is further experienced in copyright, design and unfair competition disputes.
Cathérine Elkemann is excellent on all accounts. She is pragmatic, solid on the law, creative and responsive.
Cathérine Elkemann has the rare gift of being able to pursue many matters at the same time without losing sight of any of them or of the overall goal.
Cathérine Elkemann is an extremely committed, service-oriented and creative lawyer.