(Queen's University)
Attorney at Law
Specialized Attorney for Intellectual Property Law
Dr. Jürgen Kroher has long term experience in counselling and litigating Industrial and Intellectual Property Law issues from his past responsibilities in science, industry and in the legal profession.
He has published extensively on German, European and International Patent, Trademark, Design, Copyright, and Unfair Competition Law, and has given lectures in this field upon invitation of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC), CEIPI in Strasbourg, the M.B.L. Program of St. Gallen University, WIPO and other institutions. He is chair of the Bavarian Section of the German Association for Intellectual Property (GRUR).
As an attorney at law, he is admitted to practice before all courts of first and second instance throughout Germany as well as before the German Patent and Trademark Office (GPTO), the German Patent Court, the European Patent Office (EPO), the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the European Court of First Instance (CFI) and the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
Education
- Max-Planck-Gymnasium, Munich (High School)
- St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, U.S.A. (11th grade)
- Augsburg University (School of Law)
- Queen's University (LL.M.), Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Munich
Selected Publications
- Trademarks and the Importation of Goods (LL.M. Thesis)
- Competition Law in Canada (in German, Carl Heymanns Verlag)
- Handbuch des Ausstattungsrechts (co-author)
- Singer/Stauder, EPC Commentary, co-author, 3rd English edition 2003 (5th German edition 2009)
Memberships
- GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
- AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle)
- ECTA (European Communities Trade Mark Association)
- INTA (International Trademark Association)
- ITMA (The Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys)
- LES (Licensing Executives Society)
- PTMG (Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group)