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, Slovakian, Spanish

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