Áron László

Practice Areas

• Aron’s practice focuses on intellectual property with special regard to trademarks, designs, copyright and domain names.

• His clients are Hungarian and international firms protecting their intellectual property in Hungary and abroad.

• Aron handles international trademark portfolios through a network of foreign counsels and represents foreign clients in Hungary.

• He regularly represents clients before the Hungarian and EU IP offices, Hungarian and EU courts.

• Aron is well known for his strategic approach and thinking outside the box.

• He is a contributor to a wide range of publications, regular speaker at professional events.

Professional Memberships

• Admitted to the Budapest Bar in 2008.

• Member of the Board of Copyright Experts, member of the Board of Industrial Property Experts, .hu domain arbitrator, member of the leadership of the AIPPI Hungarian National Group, previous adjunct professor at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University.

• Member of INTA, AIPPI, ECTA, Marques, IPITLGE, MIE (Hungarian IP Association) and Védjegyegyesület (Hungarian Trademark Association), Artisjus (Collecting Society).

• Regular speaker at MIE conferences and foreign professional events.

Publications

• Regular contributor to the Kluwer Trademark Blog

• Co-author of “Sleeping Beauty or Zombie? Dormand marks in Hungary and in the EU” (Hungarian, with Barnabas Mezo). Iparjogvédelmi és Szerzői Jogi Szemle, 2016/6.

• IP Litigation in EU Member States – Hungary. In: Community Design Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 – A Commentary (Gordian N. Hasselblatt ed.), C.H. Beck, Hart, Nomos, München, 2015.

• IP Litigation in EU Member States – Hungary. In: Community Trademark Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 – A Commentary (Gordian N. Hasselblatt ed.), C.H. Beck, Hart, Nomos, München, 2015.

• Co-author of “Sign needed: issues around the use of manufacturer marks” (Hungarian, with Barnabas Mezo) (Iparjogvédelmi és Szerzői Jogi Szemle, 2013/2. szám)