Dietrich Beier's practice covers a wide range of intellectual property areas with a focus on litigation and pretrial advice in matters of trademark and unfair competition as well as procuring trademark and domain name protection. Clients in these fields include a world-leading manufacturer of household goods and a European market leader of beverages. Licensing of patents, know-how and copyright is a further area in which Dietrich Beier has managed a significant number of complex deals.
Having followed the technical and legal developments in the computer and Internet area from early on, domain name law, e-commerce and software copyright law is a special interest of Dietrich Beier. He regularly serves as a panelist in domain name arbitration proceedings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He was a member of a preparatory team advising the new Arbitration Court in Prague and responsible for Alternative Dispute Resolution proceedings (ADR) for the new top level domain name .eu. Dietrich Beier has served for four years as president of the Information Technology Law Group Europe.
Based on his considerable professional experience in this field, Dietrich Beier published a compendium on domain name law ("Das Recht der Domainnamen"), which covers the legal situation in Germany as well as in 40 other jurisdictions and has received excellent reviews from within the IP community. Most recently he edited the "Festschrift für Jochen Pagenberg", a compendium of contributions covering a broad range of IP issues written by several partners of the firm and a number of prominent colleagues of various nationalities (see publications). His own article discussed the scope of the "release-claim" in domain name infringement litigations.
| 1989-1995 | Trainee at the German Patent Office, the IP firms Troller, Hitz & Troller, Switzerland, and Kenyon & Kenyon, New York |
| 1995-2001 | Associate of the firm "Bardehle, Pagenberg, Dost, Altenburg, Geissler", Munich |
| Since 2001 | Partner of the firm |
| 1986-1992 | Studies of law at the Universities of Munich and Regensburg, Germany |
| 1992 | First State Examination |
| 1995-1997 | Second State Examination; admitted as Attorney-at-law |
German, English
