Dr. iur.
Attorney-at-Law
Partner
Location München
Born 1965
hartwig@bardehle.de
T +49.(0)89.928 05-241
The practice of Henning Hartwig comprises prosecution and litigation of IP rights in the fields of trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law.
A main focus of his professional activity is national and international industrial design law, in particular multinational design infringement proceedings as well as invalidity proceedings before the OHIM in Alicante. As editor of the annual casebook entitled “Design Protection in Europe”, the only one of its kind, Henning Hartwig has unique access to Europe-wide unpublished decisions on Community and national design infringement. Clients in this field include manufacturers of the computer industry, electronic games, fitness equipment and the clothing industry. Henning Hartwig recently also successfully conducted and coordinated a number of multi-jurisdictional infringement proceedings in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Austria and the Netherlands. He also acted in one of the first infringement proceedings in Germany concerning an unregistered Community design.
Further professional activities concern the German Unfair Competition Law, the worldwide fight against product piracy and trademark matters. Here he represents clients of consumer healthcare and the food industry.
He is also active in copyright protection, having represented one of the leading European furniture manufacturers.
Recommended in:
Who's Who Legal - Germany 2012
JUVE Commercial Law Firms 2011/2012
WTR 1000 The definitive guide to trademark legal services 2011: „a major name in trademarks“
JUVE Commercial Law Firms 2010/2011
JUVE Commercial Law Firms 2009/2010: „very good in design law“ (competitor)
JUVE Commercial Law Firms 2008/2009: „very qualified trademark practitioner“ (competitor)
1997–1998 | Associate at patent and law firms Eckner & Partner, Berlin, and Ruschke, Hartmann, Madgwick & Seide, Munich |
1998–2002 | Associate at Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich |
Since 2003 | Partner of the firm |
1984–1986 | Professional training as bank clerk |
1986–1992 | Studied Law at the universities of Munich, Germany, and Geneva, Switzerland |
1992 | First State Examination (degree-level qualification) |
1995 | Second State Examination (bar admission exam) |
1996–1997 | Awarded “Dr. iur.” (PhD) degree in Law, Humboldt University of Berlin (thesis on unfair competition law) |
1997 | Admitted as attorney-at-law to the Munich Bar |
German, English, French
Henning Hartwig has published more than 80 articles on questions of trademark, design, copyright and competition law. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars of professional organizations such as GRUR, INTA, AIPPI, LES and FORUM. He further lectured on "International and European Design Law" at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).
MARQUES (Association of European Trade Mark Owners): Designs team
UNION (European Practitioners in Intellectual Property): Design commission
IPO (Intellectual Property Owners): Design rights committee
GRUR (German Association of Intellectual Property and Copyright Law): Expert committee for design law
Current blog team member Class 99 (http://class-99.blogspot.com)