Dietrich Beier's practice covers a wide range of intellectual property areas with a focus on litigation and pre-trial advice in matters of trademark and unfair competition as well as procuring trade-mark protection and support. Clients in these fields include a leading European beverage company and a major chip manufacturer. 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 fields of computer and internet technology from early on, Dietrich Beier is particularly interested in domain name law, e-commerce and software copyright law. He regularly serves as a panellist in domain name arbitration proceedings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He was a member of a preparatory team and jointly responsible for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules (ADR Rules) for .eu arbitration proceedings. Dietrich Beier has served for four years as president of the Information Technology Law Group Europe and regularly advises the Czech Arbitration Court.

In 2008 Dietrich Beier published "Lizenzverträge – License Agreements” together with Jochen Pagenberg and contributed a chapter on domain name law to “Handbuch des Fachanwalts Informationstechnologierecht” (a manual for lawyers specializing in information technology). He was the editor of the "Festschrift für Jochen Pagenberg", a compendium of articles covering a broad range of IP issues by several partners of the firm and a number of prominent colleagues of various nationalities. His own contribution discussed the scope of the release claim in domain name infringe-ment litigation. In 2004 he published an extensive compendium on domain name law (“Das Recht der Domainnamen”) covering the legal situation in Germany as well as in 40 other jurisdictions and received excellent reviews from within the IP community (s. publications).

Dietrich Beier is individually recommended in JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2009/2010 and in Legal 500 EMEA, 2008.

1989–1995	Trainee at the German Patent and Trademark Office (design protection office) and at IP firms Troller, Hitz & Troller, Switzerland, and Kenyon & Kenyon, New York
1995–2001	Associate at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich
Since 2001	Partner of the firm

1986–1992	Studied Law at the universities of Munich and Regensburg, Germany
1992	First State Examination (degree-level qualification)
1995–1997	Second State Examination (bar admission exam); admitted as attorney-at-law

German, English