Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) [German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright Law], Member of the Pharmaceutical and Food Law Committee; European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), Committee Member; Bund für Lebensmittelrecht und Lebensmittelkunde (BLL) [Association for Food Law and Food Science], Member of the Law Committee; Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG); Bundesverband der Arzneimittelhersteller (BAH) [Federal Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers]; German-British Jurists' Association.

Partner; German and International Trademark Law, Unfair Competition Law, Patent and Design Law, Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Law, Food and Cosmetics Law, Litigation in all IP matters.

University of Marburg; University of Geneva; University of Cambridge, England, Queens' College (Master of Laws, 1985); Admitted 1989, Germany.