Dr. Benedikt Schneiders, LL.M.

Dr. iur. Benedikt Schneiders, LL.M.
Partner, Attorney at Law, Mediator, Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified),
Associate Lecturer at the Ruhr University of Bochum for Industrial Property and Copyright Law

Specialist fields

• German and international trademark law
• Design law
• Competition law
• Media and copyright law
• Litigation
• Data protection law

Certification

• Admitted to the bar in 2009

Languages

• German
• English
• Polish

Professional development

• Studied law and additional studies in telecommunications and media law at the University of Münster and the University of Bochum
• Legal traineeship at the United Nations in The Hague (Netherlands)
• Doctorate in 2010
• Trained as a mediator and conflict moderator
• Masters in industrial property rights at the University of Düsseldorf, Master of Laws in 2012

Membership of professional associations

• German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
• Arbeitskreis für Wettbewerbs- und Markenrecht Westfalen-Lippe e.V. (Westphalia-Lippe Working Group for Competition and Trademark Law)
• Bochumer Kreis Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz e.V. (Bochum Association for Industrial Property Rights)
• Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. (DAV, German
  Bar Association)
• Deutsch-Polnische Juristen-Vereinigung e.V. (DPJV, German-Polish Association of Legal Experts)