Gert Würtenberger

Experience

• 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

Professional Memberships

• GRUR
• AIPPI
• INTA
• ECTA
• ITMA
• Deutsch Polnische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German Polish Lawyers’ Association)

Education

• 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)