Team - Brands & Design
Diana Alexander
Business Lawyer (LL.B.)
Brands
With the company since: April 2024
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Correspondence with clients, authorities and legal colleagues in Germany and abroad; amicable negotiations; coexistence agreements and trademark collision monitoring
Conny Bürzele
Brands
With the company since: February 2017
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
Bianka Gerny
Commercial Lawyer (LL.B.)
Brands
With the company since: March 2016
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Brand inquiries; brand disputes, particularly objection proceedings, extra-official negotiations, delimitation agreements; brand 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
Brands & 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:
Validation of European Patents
Maren Straub
Legal Assistant
Brands
Im Unternehmen seit: März 2003
Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte bei L&K:
Verwaltung und Betreuung nationaler und internationaler Markenportfolios, Korrespondenz mit Mandanten, Behörden sowie Anwaltskollegen im Ausland
Team - Patents
Ingrid Braun
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: June 2022
Main areas of activity 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
Main areas of activity at L&K:
Annual and renewal 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: November 2008
Main areas of activity at L&K:
General correspondence and administration, in particular file maintenance; writing 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 for: more than 20 years
Main areas of activity at L&K:
General administrative activities, especially incoming mail, appointment management, writing activities
Team - Accounting
Nathalie Lorenz
Business Administration Graduate
Accounting
With the company since: November 2001
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Accounting