Dr Eckhard Ratjen  > Boehmert & Boehmert > Bremen, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Boehmert & Boehmert
Hildegard-von-Bingen-Straße 5
28359 Bremen
Germany

Position

Attorney at Law (Germany)
Certified IP Lawyer

Career

Eckhard Ratjen works in the field of trade mark law and law of unfair competition as well as copyright. His practice concentrates, among other things, on the prosecution of trade mark applications, infringement proceedings, and preliminary injunctions. Eckhard Ratjen advises medium sized and large international and German clients in areas such as media and consumer products. He also enthusiastically assists start-up companies in all areas of intellectual property law.

Memberships

Eckhard Ratjen is a member of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR).

Education

Eckhard Ratjen studied law at the University of Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) with special emphasis on intellectual property. In his doctoral thesis, he was concerned with the audiovisual marketing of sporting events with particular regard to film copyright issues. Eckhard Ratjen studied the international law of trade marks and copyright at the renowned King’s College London from 2012 to 2013. There, he obtained a Specialist Master of Laws (LL.M.) in intellectual property law. Stages of his legal clerkship included working for an internationally operating sports marketing company in Frankfurt/Main.

He joined BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT in 2013 and qualified as a Certified IP Lawyer in 2019.

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Media > Entertainment

Boehmert & Boehmert‘s copyright group supports clients from the music and film industries as well as software companies in copyright and data protection issues, including interfacing IT and trademark matters. Practice head Martin Schaefer primarily assists with anti-piracy and IP protection and regularly acts in copyright proceedings. Sebastian Engels and Eckhard Ratjen are key contacts for IT and e-commerce issues, while Silke Freund focuses on trademark portfolio management.