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Philipp Grotkamp
Philipp Grotkamp

Philipp Grotkamp

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Philipp is a member of the Practice Area Trademarks, Advertising & Design. He advises national and international clients in all areas of trademark protection, including trademark, unfair competition, design and copyright law.

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Trade mark registration & portfolio management
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CV

Since 2024 Associate,Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Legal clerkship with stages at Taylor Wessing and the legal services of an international group
2020 - 2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2020 Graduate Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation & Competition
2023 Second state examination, Munich
2021 - 2023 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich
2011 - 2017 Legal studies (additional qualification in economics and technical sciences), University of Bayreuth

Career

Since 2024 Associate,Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Legal clerkship with stages at Taylor Wessing and the legal services of an international group
2020 - 2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2020 Graduate Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation & Competition

Education

2023 Second state examination, Munich
2021 - 2023 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich
2011 - 2017 Legal studies (additional qualification in economics and technical sciences), University of Bayreuth

Publications

Brands in the Metaverse: The Concept of ‘Interdimensional Confusion’ Between the Physical and the Virtual Space under EU Trade Mark Law, Tenkhoff / Grotkamp / Burgess-Tate, GRUR International 2023, 643–649 

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English

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Managing IP Award 2024

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