Counseling and litigation in the fields of trademark, design, unfair competition and copyright law.

As a member of a team of attorneys Verena Wintergerst is primarily concerned with judicial and extrajudicial enforcement and defence of national and European trademark and company name rights, including unfair competition law. She represents clients in the food and consumer health care sectors as well as manufacturers of disinfectants, fire protection technology and medical devices before the German civil courts and the Federal Patent Court. Other main aspects of Verena Wintergerst’s legal practice comprise counseling in IP licensing matters, pretrial advice and litigation, in particular in license contracts and in copyright matters concerning musical works.

 

2004 - 2006	Trainee with the law firms Becker Büttner Held in Munich and Maître Jean-Louis Rigault in Limoges, France
Since 2007	Associate of the law firm "Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler"

1999 - 2004	Legal studies at the University of Munich, Germany
2004	First State Examination
2006	Second State Examination
2007	Admitted as Attorney-at-Law
2007 - 2008	Master studies in Intellectual Property Law at the University of London (External System of Queen Mary, University of London and UCL)
2008	Degree of LL.M. (Queen Mary)

German, English, French