Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt Gmbh (ABP)

IP Law (Contracts, Software licensing, Employee inventions)

Partner, Attorney-at-Law

Specialized in:

• 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

• admitted to the Vienna Bar Association and also Member to the Munich Bar Association
• Partner of Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH since December 2015
• Trainee attorney with Anwälte Burger und Partner Rechtsanwalt GmbH since February 2012
• Several years’ experience working as an in-house legal counsel with an internationally acting company

German, English, Spanish, Slovakian

• Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.) in 2015 (Dissertation topic: "Appropriation, rotection and Use of Technical Knowledge in Collaborative Innovation”)
• Bar examination in June 2014
• 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, Austria

• References: please visit  https://www.abp-ip.at/en/team-en/katarina-casals