Wolfgang May
He/himOf CounselMy goal is to use my long in-house experience to add value to the legal advice.
About
EXPERIENCE
- Advising and representing several national and international clients, including well-known companies from the consumer goods and fashion industries continuously in connection with trademark matters as well as with trademark applications and opposition or other proceedings before the German and European trademark office.
- Continuously advising and representing a well-known German consumer goods company in particular in conjunction with global trademark clearance, prosecution and opposition matters.
Languages
- German
- English
Education
- University of Saarbrücken, and University of Cologne
- Higher Regional Court Cologne, First State Examination, 1983
- Landesjustizprüfungsamt Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Second State Examination, 1986
Publications
- In charge of "International Design Registration" in Hoffmann/Kleespies, Formular-Kommentar Designrecht, 2015
Seminars
- "IP Prosecution in Europe -Strategic Choices" Union-IP Conference, Berlin, 05. June 2014
- "Markenportfolios erfolgreich managen", Forum Institut für Management, Offenbach, 15. May 2013
- "Identifying and Implementing the Optimum IP Department Structure and Getting the Outsourcing/Insourcing Balance Right", Global IP Exchange, Munich, 19. March 2013
- „License Agreements in the Luxury Perfume Business“, guest lecture at the University Cattolica, Post-Graduate Program, Milan 13. January 2012
Prior Experience
Memberships And Affiliations
- Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
- Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
- Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV)
- International Trademark Association (INTA)
- MARQUES