Dr Clemens Ofner > ABP Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH > Windischgarsten, Austria > Lawyer Profile
ABP Anwälte Burger & Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH Offices
ROSENAUERWEG 16
4580 WINDISCHGARSTEN
Austria
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Dr Clemens Ofner
Work Department
Austrian, European and international trademark, design, copyright, domain and competition law, IP contracts, Monitoring IP rights
Position
Partner, Attorney at law
Career
Partner of Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH since 2008. Clemens Ofner has been specialized in intellectual property rights for many years and is nationally and internationally active in prosecution as well as litigation regarding the field of IP.
- Managing several thousand national and international trademark and design patent applications in more than 100 countries
- Representing Austrian companies in trademark law proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg
- Advising and assisting Austrian and Swiss companies during lawsuits in the field of trademark and competition law in Germany
- Registering an abstract color trademark with the EUIPO
- Defensive actions at an industrial company because of a house search due to a trademark infringement
- Challenging a Swiss company infringing a trademark at a well-known online merchant
- Defense against a damage claim due to trademark infringement in a multi-instance trial up to the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice for an industrial company
- Drafting of an IP strategy for an Austrian listed company
- Out-of-court settlement of an international copyright dispute between a renowned Austrian company and an American artist
- Resolution of disputes regarding copyright claims of a freelancer against a company
- Defensive actions for a company due to alleged copyright infringement up to the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice
Languages
German, English
Memberships
MARQUES, ECTA, Member of the Munich Bar Association
Education
Law Studies at the Johannes Kepler University Linz
Doctorate in Law (Dr. jur.) in 2000
Dissertation topic: “The trademark as an asset and brand evaluation”
Austrian bar examination in 2004
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 Ofner; Katarina 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.