Team - Trademarks & Design
Conny Bürzele
Trademarks
With the company since: February 2017
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Management of national and international trademark portfolios; correspondence with clients, authorities and legal colleagues abroad
Bianka Gerny
Commercial Lawyer (LL.M.)
Trademarks
With the company since: March 2016
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Trademark inquiries; trademark disputes, particularly opposition proceedings, amicable negotiations, delimitation agreements; trademark conflict monitoring; license agreements; proceedings concerning absolute grounds for refusal of protection
Doris Krause
Legal Assistant
Designs
With the company since: January 2003
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Design administration (application and registration procedures for German designs, European Community designs, as well as international designs); monitoring of industrial property rights
Joanne Marie Schilling
Patent Attorney Assistant
Trademarks & Designs
With the company since: September 2012
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Brand administration (application and registration procedures, extensions, brand disputes) for Germany and the European Union; extensions of national foreign brands; monthly patent monitoring
Bianka Sicali
Team Assistant
TRADEMARKS AND ASSIGNMENTS
With the company since: December 2022
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Assignment of property rights in Germany and abroad, correspondence with clients, authorities as well as attorney colleagues in Germany and abroad, data maintenance
Maren Straub
Legal Assistant
Trademarks
With the company since: March 2003
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Administration and support of national and international brand portfolios, correspondence with clients, authorities, as well as fellow lawyers abroad
Team - Patents
Ingrid Braun
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: June 2022
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Validation of European Patents
Emilia D’Elia
Patents
With the company since: September 2021
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
In the professional training for Patent Attorney Assistant
Brigitte Eberhardt
Legal Assistant
Patents
With the company since: August 2016
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Drafting of patent applications, correspondence with clients and authorities; processing of dunning and insolvency proceedings; archiving; processing of outgoing mail
Rose Hammeley
Patents
With the company since: June 2023
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
European patent procedure and incoming mail
Julia Holzmann
Law graduate and Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: September 2017
License contracts; general contract law and legal matters in intellectual property; patent litigation; reinstatements; European patent procedure
Natalie Köhler
Patents
With the company since: July 2005
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Annual and extension fees
Eva-Maria Loebel
Patents
With the company since: over 20 years
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Front desk, office management, filing of German patent and utility model applications
Kerstin Rahna
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: June 2023
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
European patent procedure and incoming mail
Mareike Riek
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: February 2023
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
European patent procedure, PCT application as well as PCT patent procedure, incoming mail with deadline processing and file creation
Margarete Schotge
Legal Assistant
Patents
With the company since: more than 20 years
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
General administrative activities, in particular incoming mail, appointment management, drafting activities
Carina Siedler
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: January 2012
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
PCT applications as well as PCT patent procedure, entering national/regional phases of a PCT application, foreign patent administration (application and examination procedure for foreign patent applications)
Angelika Ullmann
Patents
With the company since: more than 20 years
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
General administrative activities, in particular incoming mail, appointment management, drafting activities
Team - Accounting
Nathalie Lorenz
Business Administration Graduate
Accounting
With the company since: November 2001
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Accounting