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. His area of specialisation also includes personality law (media law). He represents clients in conflicts, both in pre-trial negotiations and in the various types of court and administrative litigation. He is editor in chief of the IP and competition law journal "Österreichische Blätter für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (ÖBl)" 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. He received his Master's degree in law from the University of Vienna (Mag. iur.) in 1994 and his PhD degree (Dr. iur.) in 1999. In 1998 he earned a postgraduate degree (LL.M.) from the New York University, USA.

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, Vienna/Austria (Dr. iur. 1999)

New York University, New York/USA (LL.M. 1998)

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Mag. iur. 1994)