Taylor Wessing

Trademarks, Design, Litigation, Dispute Resolution; Advertising, Copyright; Media, Unfair Competition

Partner

Dirk Wieddekind advises on all aspects of intellectual property law, both contentious and non-contentious. His clients include both start-up companies as well as leading brand owners, with a strong focus on the media, IT, and consumer goods industries.

Dirk is a graduate of the Universities of Freiburg, Germany and Aberdeen, Scotland. Before joining Taylor Wessing, Dirk was a research fellow with Professor Dr Hoffmann-Riem, Justice of the German Constitutional Court, at the Centre for Law and Innovation at the University of Hamburg, where his work focused on media, telecommunications and competition law.

Dirk is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property Law and the author of several publications on media- and competition law issues.

• Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing
• 2003 – 2008 Associate, Taylor Wessing
• 2001 – 2003 Legal clerkship, Berlin and London
• 1998 – 2001 Research Assistant to Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Federal Constitutional Court judge (ret.), University of Hamburg

• Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft e.V. (BVDW)
• Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V. (GRUR)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Media Law Resource Center (MLRC)
• Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale – ALAI Deutschland e.V.

• 2003 Second legal state examination, Hamburg
• 1998 – 2003 Doctoral studies and doctor’s degree, University of Hamburg
• 1998 First legal state examination, Freiburg im Breisgau
• 1995 Diploma in Legal Studies, University of Aberdeen