Attorney at Law admitted in Duesseldorf (1st instance and Court of Appeal), Germany;
born April 24, 1968, Bergheim, Germany,
Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany;
1997 - 2000: Lawyer in Heuking Kuehn Lueer Wojtek, Attorneys at Law, Certified Public Accountants, Tax Advisors, Duesseldorf, Germany;
2000 - 2003: PricewaterhouseCoopers Veltins Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (Landwell), Duesseldorf, since 2001 as Partner;
Since 1st March 2004: Partner of Heuking Kuehn Lueer Wojtek, Cologne.

Professional Education

Law Schools Hamburg, Mainz, and Cologne (1989-1994);
Legal clerkship in Cologne and New York (1995-1997);
since 1997 admitted as lawyer in Duesseldorf specialising in the legal areas Intellectual and Industrial Property

Areas of Professional Activities:

Intellectual and Industrial Property Law, esp. Trademark Law and Law of Unfair Competition, Information technology, Corporate Law, esp. in the information technology industry.

Client profile:

In-depth Experience in advising national and international enterprises, organisations and individuals in the areas Intellectual and Industrial Property Law, esp. development of strategies of protection and optimal utilization of intellectual property of any kind such as inventions, software, designs, brands, artwork and know how, including search and application of industrial property rights; all kinds of proceedings in this areas (court and administrative); IP asset deals; legal guidance in software projects, drafting of IT and IP contracts.


Membership:
- International Trademark Association (INTA), Member of the Famous and Wellknown Trademarks Committee
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- German Association of Intellectual Property and Copyright Law (GRUR)
- Business networks linkedin and xing

Other Functions:
- Lectureship at the University of Applied Science Cologne (Media Law)
- Seminars and lectures
- author of hand book "Chef's business - Intellectual Property", 2006
- author of "Employee Invention Right", in Hümmerich/Spirolke, since the 2nd volume (currently 6th volume)
- "Revised Berne Convention for the protection of literary and artistic works", Commentary, in World Intellectual Property - Rights and Remedies, Oceana Publications, 2008
- Author of various further contributions in newspapers and newsletters

Bar Admissions
admitted 1997, Cologne.

Education
- Universities Hamburg and Cologne (1989-1997)

Significant Accomplishments
Certified Specialist Lawyer in Intellectual Property Law

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association
• International Trademark Association
  
• Czech Arbitration Court (Panelist ADR.EU)

• Impact of The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Proceedings Before the Trade Mark And Design Offices

  By Dominik Eickemeier |March 2020

Additional Articles(Selection)
- Co-Author of "Right of Employees - Inventions", in Legal Handbook "Labour Law" by Prof. Dr. Huemmerich, 2011
- "Optimal Protection of Industrial and Intellectual Property", Legal Handbook Industrial Property.
- Category “View to Brussels” (in German), in AfP, periodical contributions since 2013, together with Dr. Ruben A. Hofmann
- Ist das Kunst, oder kann das weg? ("Is this art or can that go away?"), in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 31, 2018
- New Developments in German Trademark Law - The forthcoming changes according to the draft of the Law on the Modernization of Trademark Law, Update IP No. 7, June 7, 2018
- OLG Hamm: Free distribution of software under GNU by the university, in Computer und Recht: IT and Software, Edition 12/2017, with Dr. Lutz Martin Keppeler
- IT procurement projects: particular problems - Part I-III, in: der ITRB - IT-Rechtsberater (Heft 5-7/2017), with Dr. Thomas Fischer, Patrick Bartels, and Dr. Lutz Martin Keppeler
- No rescue from the recall duty, in IPRB – IP Rechtsberater, with Peter Fries