Team - Brands & Design

Conny Bürzele

Brands

With the company since: November 2001

Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Accounting

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:
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

Brands

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