Counseling and litigation in trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition matters, domain names, licensing and distribution.
Among other clients, Stefan Abel is representing a multinational producer of French fashion and accessories in a series of counterfeit and piracy cases and a US manufacturer of medical devices in a series of parallel import cases in a number of European countries. In addition he counsels a popular television channel and several film production companies in the fields of trademark, unfair competition law as well as in copyright matters.
Stefan Abel serves as a panelist in domain name arbitration proceedings at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). He is officially appointed to lecture at the University of Strasbourg's Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) and regularly publishes articles on his fields of practice (see publications).
Stefan Abel was nominated for the "International IP Award 2008" by the IP publisher informa.
| 1993-1995 | Research assistant at the Chair for German Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law, Lausanne; research activities in the field of conflict of laws and comparative law at the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law, Lausanne |
| 1995-1998 | Trainee at the law firm of Graf von Westphalen, Fritze & Modest and at other law firms |
| 1998-2002 | Associate of the law firm Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz, Intellectual Property and E-commerce department, Munich; private practice |
| Since 2002 | Attorney-at-law with "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler", Munich |
| Panelist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva | |
| Since 2005 | Lectureship at the University of Strasbourg, Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) |
| Since 2006 | Partner of the firm |
| 1988-1993 | Legal studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Konstanz |
| 1990-1991 | Student and research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Law of Economics and Law of International Trade Relations, University of Konstanz |
| 1993 | First State Examination in Konstanz |
| 1996 | Degree of Dr. iur. of the University of Konstanz |
| 1998 | Second State Examination (Bar Examination) in Hamburg, Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht |
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