Dr Katarina Casals Ide > ABP Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH > Windischgarsten, Austria > Lawyer Profile

ABP Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH
ROSENAUERWEG 16
4580 WINDISCHGARSTEN
Austria

Work Department

Austrian, European and international patents, trademark, design and competition law; IP-related contracts, particularly in the fields of IP and know-how transfer, research and development, confidentiality and licensing; software licensing and open source software; employee inventions and employee invention remuneration; prosecution and enforcement in Asian countries in close cooperation with local partners

Position

Partner, Attorney at law

Career

Several years’ experience working as an in-house legal counsel with an internationally acting company; Trainee attorney with Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH (Attorneys Burger and Partner) since February 2012; Partner of Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH since December 2015

Languages

German, English, Slovakian, Spanish

Memberships

Member of the Munich Bar Association

Education

  • Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) in 2015 (Dissertation topic: “Appropriation, rotection and Use of Technical Knowledge in Collaborative Innovation”)
  • Bar examination in June 2014
  • Trainee attorney with Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH since February 2012
  • Several years of experience working as an in-house legal counsel with an internationally operating company
  • Post-graduate studies in Intellectual Property at the University of Alicante (Spain) leading to the qualification “Máster en Propiedad Industrial, Intelectual y Derecho de la Sociedad de la Información”
  • Thesis: “Implications of Intellectual Property on the Free Trade of Goods in the European Union – An analysis on the basis of Patent and Trademark Laws”
  • Law studies at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Lawyer Rankings

Austria > Intellectual property

IP boutique ABP Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH works closely with the firm’s Munich and Zurich offices to provide patent and trade mark prosecution and litigation services across the DACH region. The practice’s leadership group consists of Hannes Burger, who founded the firm, and is also a qualified patent attorney; soft IP specialist Clemens OfnerKatarina Casals Ide, who focuses on IP contracting and licensing; criminal patent and trade mark expert Esther Humpl-Wagner; and Eike Schaper, who leads the firm’s litigation practice.