legal service

ip & unfair commercial practices, new technologies, start-up services, unfair competition

admitted to the bar

2011

with schoenherr since

2008

education

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Dr. iur. 2010, Mag. iur. 2006)
Danube University Krems, Krems/Austria (LL.M. 2009, MBA 2009)
University of Alicante, Alicante/Spain (Magister Lvcentinvs Community Trademark Special Module 2009)

teaching positions

University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (since 2016)
imh, Vienna/Austria (since 2014)
Danube University Krems, Krems/Austria (since 2013)

working experience

European center for e-commerce and internet law (E-Center), Vienna/Austria (2004-2007)
Austrian marketing department of an international IT company, Vienna/Austria (2001-2007)

memberships

International Trademark Association (INTA)
International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw)
Judicial Board of the Austrian Association of the Branded Goods Industry

languages

German, English

publications

• Contribution to Czernich/Deixler-Hübner/Schauer (ed.), Handbuch Schiedsrecht, Manz 2018 (section on IP arbitration and domain disputes).
• Permanent contributor to the Austrian law journal ecolex (overseeing the IP case law section)
• Contribution to Kucsko/Handig (ed.), urheber.recht (2nd edition), Manz 2017 (section on database protection)
• Contribution to Kucsko/Schumacher (ed.), marken.schutz (2nd edition), Manz 2013 (section on opposition proceedings)
• Contribution to Feiler/Raschhofer (ed.), Innovation und Rechtspraxis, Praxisschrift für Wolfgang Zankl, wuv 2009
• Various publications on IP, Domain names and unfair competition and procedural law in law journals
• On a regular basis case comments on intellectual property, newTechnologies and unfair competition in Austrian law journal ecolex

other publications

• Machine Learning: Whom to Credit, Whom to Blame?, Roadmap 17
• New Generic Top-Level Domains and the Trademark Clearinghouse, Roadmap 15

• Österreich: Selbstlernende Systeme: Wem gehört’s – wer hat Schuld?
• Gift im Markenprodukt
• Claim for restitution of machine-generated data
• Amendments to Austrian Trademark Law
• Austrian ban on most favored nation clauses in the online travel sector - a benefit to the consumer or the end of online booking services in Austria?
• EU: Liability of Wi-Fi providers for copyright infringements (Case: Tobias McFadden vs Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH)
• One and two character domain names will be available soon under the Austrian ccTLD <.at>
• CJEU rules on liability of marketplace operators for trademark infringements
• EU Trademark System Changes - Practical Effects on Portfolio Management and Strategy
• <.insurance> - A New gTLD Targeting The Insurance Sector
• <.bank> - A New gTLD Targeting the Financial Sector
• EU: Having problems with counterfeits?
• Die neue Produktpiraterie-Verordnung 2014
• Reselling Used Apps?
• UWG-Verstoß durch unbefugte Gewerbeausübung
• Der Schutz der coolen Business-Idee
• EU: Genuine Use of Community Trademarks Changes due to recent CJEU decision C-149/11