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Zsófia Lendvai

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Intellectual Property Law; European Law.

Position

Associate. Ms Zsófia Lendvai specializes in intellectual property matters, including trademark, patent, copyright and know-how, relating to various activities and various industries both at the national and European level. Zsófia wrote her PhD in Germany on the enforcement of copyright law in Germany and the U.K. She handles the full range of IP services, from routine IP registration and maintenance services, such as applications, renewals, assignments, recording of changes, and searches to international as well as national registrations to infringement cases, license agreements, domain dispute settlements.

Career

Zsófia Lendvai joined the Budapest office of Baker & McKenzie in 2009. She worked earlier as Deputy Head of the Department for Industrial Property (Budapest) at a major Hungarian pharmaceuticals company. Prior to that Zsófia worked at the Ministry of Justice and was in charge of IP legislation. Zsófia has published several articles on intellectual property law and regularly speaks on IP and related matters at conferences, and lectures in the framework of a postgraduate info-communication law course at the University of Pécs, Hungary, where she teaches software and database copyright law.

Languages

Hungarian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (intermediate).

Member

Budapest Bar Association (Admitted: 2009); Copyright Experts Council of Hungary; Board of Experts on Industrial Property attached to the Hungarian Patent Office.

Education

University of Hannover and Max-Planck Institute, Munich PhD (2003); Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Budapest (1998).

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