Trademark registration and infringement proceedings, plant variety protection (application and enforcement), contract drafting in licensing matters
EU law and antitrust law
Author of the leading German commentary on national and European plant variety protection as well as initiator and co author of the book "European Union Plant Variety Protection
Chairman of the South German Arbitration Court for Seed and Plant Variety Protection Disputes
President of the GRUR
Chairman of the GRUR Technical Committee for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Legal studies at the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich and School of Economics, London
Internships, inter alia, at the Indo German Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai, and at the law firm Matsuo + Kossugi, Tokyo
Scholarship Legal Studies, King’s College, London
Doctorate at the University of Marburg, dissertation on the subject “Die Priorität im Sortenschutzrecht ” [Priority Rights in Plant Variety Law] (1993)