Michael Woller

Practice Areas

ip & unfair competition, it & technology law

Career

Michael Woller 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.

Professional Memberships

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

Publications

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)

Personal

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Dr. iur. 2010)

Danube University Krems, Krems/Austria (LL.M. 2009)

Danube University Krems, Krems/Austria (MBA 2009)