Team - Brands & Design
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
Anna Gerstenlauer
State-certified Secretary
Brands
With the company since: September 1988
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Writing procedures, support to EU brands, payment transactions with the EUIPO
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
Maren Straub
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
Bianka Weigelt
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
Team - Patents
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
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
Rose Hammeley
Patents
With the company since: January 2009
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
EP patent procedure
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
Margarete Schotge
Legal Assistant
Patents
With the company since: November 2008
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
General correspondence and administration, particularly record maintenance; drafting activities
Carina Siedler
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: January 2012
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
PCT applications, initiation of national/regional phases of a PCT application, validation of European patents in Germany, filing of foreign 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
Jana Wachter
Patent Attorney Assistant
Patents
With the company since: October 2015
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Preparation of plans for patent applications, domestic and foreign rewrites, monitoring & filing of examination requests, filing & administration of German patents, incoming mail with processing of deadlines and file creation
Team - Accounting
Maria Hafner
Accounting & Patents
With the company since: January 1984
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Foreign filings; accounting
Nathalie Lorenz
Business Administration Graduate
Accounting
With the company since: November 2001
Key areas of expertise at L&K:
Accounting