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Dr. Stefan Fröhlich
Dr. Stefan Fröhlich

Dr. Stefan Fröhlich

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Stefan is an expert in IP law and advises both start-ups and multinational group companies on all matters relating to trade mark law, design law, competition law, and copyright law. In close consultation with his clients, he develops, implements, and pursues effective and long-term protection strategies.

 

Stefan focuses his practice on advising national and international companies from the consumer goods industry, above all, from the fashion and design industry, as well as from the financial industry. Drawing from his extensive litigation experience, also in conducting and coordinating international disputes, he represents his clients’ interests in court. In addition, Stefan regularly shares his expertise as a speaker at seminars offered by the BeckAkademie and at the Frankfurt School of Finance for lawyers who want to specialise in the subject area of protection of intellectual property.

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CV

Since 2010 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2005 – 2008 Research Assistant, Universität Würzburg
2010 Admitted as a lawyer
2009 Second state examination, Würzburg/Bavaria
2009 Legal clerkship, IP/IT practice group of a large commercial law firm, Cologne
2008 Doctoral degree on the theme of scents as intellectual property („summa cum laude“), Prof. Dr. Olaf Sosnitza, Julius–Maximilians–Universität, Würzburg
2006 First state examination, Würzburg/Bavaria
2005 Additional diploma, European Law
2002 – 2003 Overseas semester, University Bergen, Norway

Career

Since 2010 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2005 – 2008 Research Assistant, Universität Würzburg

Education

2010 Admitted as a lawyer
2009 Second state examination, Würzburg/Bavaria
2009 Legal clerkship, IP/IT practice group of a large commercial law firm, Cologne
2008 Doctoral degree on the theme of scents as intellectual property („summa cum laude“), Prof. Dr. Olaf Sosnitza, Julius–Maximilians–Universität, Würzburg
2006 First state examination, Würzburg/Bavaria
2005 Additional diploma, European Law
2002 – 2003 Overseas semester, University Bergen, Norway

Publications

Markenpiraterie: So können Sie sich schützen, in: W&V, 03/2021

Verdinglichung lizenzvertraglicher Vertriebsregelungen, MarkenR 2010, p. 241 ff.

Düfte als geistiges Eigentum, Schriftenreihe Geistiges Eigentum und Wettbewerbsrecht, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009

Freihaltebedürfnis bei mehrdeutigen Zeichen  Unterschiede in der Beurteilung durch EuGH, BGH und BPatG?, MarkenR 2006, p. 383 ff. (with Olaf Sosnitza)

Memberships & Associations

Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)

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Awards

JUVE Awards 2023

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Managing IP Award 2024

Trademark Firm of the Year, Germany

WIPR Germany Trademark Rankings 2024

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