Anja is a specialist lawyer for intellectual property law and has been working in the area of patent law for over 15 years. She manages and coordinates complex, multinational patent infringement proceedings and drafts infringement and nullity opinions.
She advises on parallel opposition and nullity proceedings before the European Patent Office, the Federal Patent Court and the Federal Supreme Court. In particular, Anja represents clients from the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotech, personalised medicine and precision medicine as well as from the chemical and medical device industries and advises on related issues of digitisation. Having spent time in Geneva, Strasbourg, Tokyo and London, Anja has intercultural competence and language skills (including English, French and Japanese).
2019 | Mentorin women, IP e.V. |
Since 2011 | Lawyer, Taylor Wessing |
Since 2011 | Lecturer, Munich Business School |
2011 – 2014 | Lecturer, Technische Universität Dresden |
Since 2011 | Lawyer, Taylor Wessing |
2006 – 2011 | Lawyer, Düsseldorf patent litigation firm |
2009 | Specialist lawyer for Industrial Property Law |
2006 | Doctoral degree, summa cum laude, Ph.D. thesis on the "Legal consequences of patent invalidity. Analysis of German, French and U.S. American Law”, which was awarded the Faculty of Law Doctoral Prize at the Technical University of Dresden in 2007, Technical University Dresden |
2006 | Admitted as a lawyer, Düsseldorf |
2005 | Second state examination, Düsseldorf |
2003 – 2005 | Legal trainee solicitor, large international and large national law firm, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Tokyo |
2001 – 2003 | Doctoral scholarship for doctorate studies, Technical University Dresden |
2000 – 2001 | LL.M., International Studies in Intellectual Property Law, Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) Strasbourg and the Technical University Dresden |
2000 | First state examination, Heidelberg |
1995 – 2000 | Legal studies, Technical University Dresden, University of Geneva and University of Heidelberg |
Prozesskommentar Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, 2. Auflage C.H. Beck, 2018, §§ 704 - 857 ZPO |
German Association of Industrial Property Law and Copyright Law (GRUR) Association of Experts of Industrial Property Law (VPP) International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) German Japanese Lawyer’s Association (DJJV) German Japanese Society (DJG) European Women’s Management Development International Network (EWMD) Women in IP e.V. |
English |
French |
Japanese |