Michael Woller

ip & unfair competition, it & technology law

Michael Woller, partner joined Schoenherr in 2008. As partner and co-head of the intellectual property & technology practice he specialises in the full range of intellectual property law with a focus on patents, trademarks and unfair competition, handling both litigation and non-contentious matters. Michael is heavily involved in cross-border matters, particularly in the CEE region, and assists clients in handling large international trademark portfolios. He is tech-savvy and active in patent litigation and non-contentious (e.g. employee inventor remuneration) matters. Michael holds a teaching position for international and European trademark law at the University of Vienna/Austria.

INTA, ITechLaw, AIPPI, ICC Commission on Intellectual Property, Judicial Board of the Austrian Association of the Branded Goods Industry

Author of the section on trademark oppositions in the trademark commentary "marken.schutz" (3rd edition - Kucsko/Schumacher, 2020); Co-Author of the handbook "Cloud Computing" (2019); Author of the IP arbitration and domain disputes section in the arbitration handbook "Handbuch Schiedsrecht" (Czernich/Deixler-Hübner/Schauer, 2018); Author of the section on database protection in the copyright commentary "urheber.recht" (2nd edition – Kucsko/Handig, 2017)