Dr. Christian Tenkhoff

Christian has more than ten years of experience in high-stakes and international brand matters. His practice covers all aspects of trade mark law, including brand clearance, prosecution and enforcement.

He manages the trade mark portfolios for some of the world’s leading brands in technology, media, life sciences, luxury and retail. He frequently handles complex cross-border disputes – especially those involving unconventional marks and trade dress protection. His most recent cases include C-832/21 VOGUE, T-175/22 BREZTRI and T-591/22 Polaroid.

Christian is co-author of the Munich Handbook for Industrial Property Rights and serves on the Non-Traditional Marks Committee of INTA. He is regularly recommended by leading legal directories including JUVE, Legal500 and Managing IP. He has been praised as “very well versed” and “service- and solution-oriented”.

Christian heads the Beijing Tailun IP Agency in China.

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CV

Since 2024 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2019 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2014 – 2019 (Senior) Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2024 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2019 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2014 – 2019 (Senior) Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2018 M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

2014 LL.M., University College London (UCL)

2013 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamm

Publications

Brands in the Metaverse: The Concept of ‘Interdimensional Confusion’ Between the Physical and the Virtual Space under EU Trade Mark (co-author), GRUR Int. 2023, 643-649

German trade marks law (co-author), in: Munich Handbook on Intellectual Property Law, ed. Gordian N. Hasselblatt, C.H. Beck, 6th edition 2022

Anything but ordinary: Where insights from behavioural economics meet the "average consumer" in EU trade mark law, MarkenR 2018, 281-288