"Trade Expert Talks From the German Trade Mark Office" is the title of an event that is specially being laid on by MARQUES, the European Association of Trade Mark Owners, for the edification, education and enjoyment of its German-speaking members. The event takes place on Friday 20 November, at the offices of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office, Zweibrückenstrasse 12, 80331 Munich.

This event is the fruit of cooperation (left) between the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the German Brand Association. Among the judges taking part are Professors-Doctors Joachim Bornkamm (Former Presiding Judge of the German Federal Supreme Court) and Franz Hacker (Presiding Judge of the German Federal Patent Court), Olaf Sosnitza (Former Judge of the Court of Appeal of Nuremeberg), Lars Meinhardt (Presiding Judge of the District Court of Munich), Johanna Brückner-Hofmann (Presiding Judge of the District Court of Duesseldorf) and Christoph Bartos (Member of one of the OHIM Boards of Appeal).

MARQUES will be represented by Doctors Uwe Over and Gregor Versondert, the German PTO by its president Cornelia Rudloff-Schaeffer and Barbara Preißner, Head of the Trade Mark Department of the German PTO and the German Brand Association by Dr Alexander Dröge, Head of Legal Department of the German Brand Association.

The attendance fee is 350 EUR. For further details just click here.