Dr. Dirk Wiedemann, LL.M. oec.

Education:

• 2000–2002 University of Würzburg Law School
• 2002–2003 University of Nancy (France) Law School
• 2003–2005 University of Bonn Law School
• 2005 First State Examination in Law
• 2006–2007 Master of Laws (LL.M. oec.), University of Cologne
• 2010 Doctor of Law, University of Cologne
• 2012 Second State Examination in Law

Professional Training:

• 2010–2012 Compulsory legal training at Courts and Administrative Agencies in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main
• 2011 Internship at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, University of London, London (England)

Professional Experience:

• 2012 Admission to the Bar
• 2012 joined the law firm Lorenz Seidler Gossel
• since 2019 Partner at Lorenz Seidler Gossel
• 2023 Admitted as UPC representative

Selected Publications:

• ”The enforcement of the claim to inspection pursuant to § 19a German Trademark Act in preliminary injunction proceedings” (GRUR 2014, 229 et seq.)
• “Complaint proceedings at Facebook regarding trademark infringements – “I like”?” (GRUR-Prax 2018, 203 et seq.)
• “Iustitia is blind but likes to read twice: On the new approval procedure for appeals to the ECJ” (GRUR-Prax 2019, 275 et seq.)
• “Aux armes – The Federal Constitutional Court's case-law regarding the equality of arms in preliminary injunction proceedings" (GRUR-Prax 2020, 359 et seq.)
• “EU regulation on standard essential patents ante portas - An essential overview“ (GRUR-Prax 2024, 222 et seq.)

Memberships:

• German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR)

Foreign languages:

• English
• French