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Dr. Anette Gärtner, LL.M. (Edinburgh), Partner

Dr. Anette Gärtner, LL.M. (Edinburgh)

Partner

Rechtsanwältin, Solicitor (England and Wales), Solicitor (Ireland) (non-practising), Fachanwältin für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz

Languages

German, English, French

Practice areas

  • Automotive
  • Consumer
  • Health and life sciences
  • Intellectual property
  • Technology, Media and Telecoms

Practice notes

Dr. Anette Gärtner is a partner in the Commercial practice group at Eversheds Sutherland. She is one of the founding partners of the Frankfurt office.

Her practice focuses on patent law. Her clients particularly value Anette’s experience with cross-border patent infringement proceedings and her ability to develop a tailored attack or defense strategy. She is one of the few attorneys who have already participated in CJEU reference proceedings and won a case before the UK Supreme Court.

Anette Gärtner also advises companies on non-contentious projects, such as licensing and cooperation agreements, as well as on issues of employee inventions law and know-how protection. She has many years of transactional experience.

Anette is the author of numerous articles on patent and employee inventions law. She is co-author of the "Research Handbook on Information Law and Governance" (2021).

Since 2016, Anette has been a guest lecturer at the TU Dresden in the program "LL.M. International Studies in Intellectual Property Law".

Anette is a member of the GRUR expert committees for patent law as well as data rights and the VPP (Association of Intellectual Property Experts).

She is recommended by industry publications and leading media as a leading expert in patent law (IAM Patent 1000, Best Lawyers Germany).

Supported by the German National Academic Foundation, Anette Gärtner studied law and administrative sciences in Bonn, Edinburgh and Speyer. Edinburgh University awarded her the T.B. Smith Prize (Most distinguished LL.M. student), and she received her doctorate in Bonn in 2005.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, she was a partner in a US commercial law firm.

Selected Mandates:

  • Ongoing advice to a manufacturer of safety equipment on questions of employee inventions law*
  • Represented a manufacturer of a medical devices manufacturer in several patent infringement proceedings against a competitor*
  • Advised several companies from the telecommunications sector on issues relating to FRAND licensing*
* advised before joining Eversheds Sutherland

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