
Christian Schumacher
About
Provided by Christian Schumacher
Practice Areas
Intellectual property law, unfair competition law, media law
Career
Christian Schumacher is a partner at Schoenherr, where he focuses on intellectual property and unfair competition law. He regularly advises Austrian and international clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, in particular on trademark, copyright and unfair competition law, including domain name disputes. He represents clients in conflicts, both in pre-trial negotiations and in the various types of court and administrative litigation. His area of specialisation also includes media law. He is a regular contributor to the Austrian commercial law journal ecolex and author and co-author of several publications in the trademark, copyright and media law field as well as a lecturer on intellectual property law on the University of Vienna and professional training courses in preparation for the bar exam on AWAK.
Professional Memberships
Austrian Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright (board member), AIPPI, INTA, Marques (team member)
Publications
Editor-in-chief of main Austrian IP-specialist law journal; Co-editor of trademark commentary regularly cited by the courts (Kucsko/Schumacher, marken.schutz); Author of several publications in IP field
Personal
University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1999, Mag. iur. 1994)
New York University (LL.M. 1998)
Chambers Review
Europe
Christian Schumacher advances to the top of the rankings due to excellent feedback from market commentators. He is held in high esteem for his prowess in handling the entire spectrum of complex trade mark matters. He is highly experienced in both Austrian and multi-jurisdictional mandates.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He is very well known and incredible in trade mark law."
"Christian Schumacher is an expert at the international level who is able to advise on new and unusual cases with lots of questions that have never been dealt with before."
"He is very well known and incredible in trade mark law."
"Christian Schumacher is an expert at the international level who is able to advise on new and unusual cases with lots of questions that have never been dealt with before."
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