Kristina is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Advisory and IP practice group in our Munich office.
Kristina is a Senior Associate in the Commercial and IP practice group in our Munich office.
Her area of advice covers the protection and enforcement of her clients' rights in the field of intellectual property law (including competition, trademark, trade secret, copyright, advertising, design, patent, utility model and data privacy law) with a focus on specialised commercial litigation (IP, Data Privacy and general commercial litigation). Her work also includes the supervision of supervisory procedures in data protection law as well as advising clients in all different sectors on the creation, exploitation, protection and enforcement of IP rights (e.g. technology transfer, licensing, cooperation and manufacturing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, remuneration of employee inventions).
Kristina studied law with a focus on intellectual property and competition at Cologne University. She completed her legal traineeship at Aachen Regional Court with stages in Brussels and Munich. During her legal traineeship, she inter alia worked for a major law firm in Cologne in the field of intellectual property law and in the trade mark law department of a German automobile manufacturer. In her PhD thesis, Kristina dealt with the protection of trade secrets in court proceedings. Since June 2018, she has been admitted as a lawyer and has been working for Eversheds Sutherland.
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Kristina's recent experience includes:
- Development and implementation of a helpline in the field of technical protective rights, such as the defence of alleged design, utility model and patent infringements, for a leading online retailer.
- Defence of an electric vehicle manufacturer against alleged patent infringement.
- Defence of a manufacturer of metal surfaces in arbitration proceedings regarding reasonable remuneration of employee-inventor.
- Advising a leading online retailer in data privacy related official and court proceedings.
- Representation of a major manufacturer of licensed comic products in a trademark/copyright dispute.
- Management of large trademark portfolio of leading independent German content house.
- Strategic trademark and copyright infringement consulting for a major German publishing house.
- Trainings on new legal requirements for protection of trade secrets and particularities of German copyright law.
- Accompanying numerous due diligences and examining IP-relevant issues in this context.
- Studied law at Cologne University with a focus on intellectual property and competition