Vossius & Partner

Trademarks, Designs & Competition Law / Copyright & Media Law / Artificial Intelligence

PARTNER
Attorney-at-Law
Certified IP Lawyer

Dr. Marcus von Welser was admitted to the bar in 2002 and certified as a specialist in intellectual property law in 2008. He advises and represents clients in all areas of intellectual property law, in particular copyright, trademark and competition law. He also has extensive experience in litigation and contract negotiation.

He focuses on the judicial and extrajudicial enforcement of intellectual property rights. He has many years of litigation experience before numerous regional and higher regional courts, the Federal Patent Court and the Court of the European Union in Luxembourg. He also specializes in drafting and negotiating license agreements, advising on the interface with antitrust law, in the area of open source software and in legal issues related to artificial intelligence. In the field of trademarks and designs, he also advises on the strategic development of IP portfolios. His clients include companies in the automotive, electronics, furniture, clothing, food, pharmaceutical and software industries, as well as platform providers, publishers, agencies, museums, designers, architects and photographers.

Dr. Marcus von Welser is a lecturer in copyright law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Applied Sciences Berlin. He regularly gives lectures in Germany and abroad. He is the author and editor of numerous publications, including the "Münchener Anwaltshandbuch zum Urheber- und Medienrecht" (published by C.H. Beck), the "Praxiskommentar zum Urheberrecht" (published by C. H. Beck), a handbook on "Marken- und Produktpiraterie" (published by Wiley-VCH), and the "Medienrecht Praxishandbuch" (published by DeGruyter).

Since 2018, the German newspaper Handelsblatt and the US publisher Best Lawyers have recognized him as one of Germany's best lawyers in the field of media and copyright law.

Dr. Marcus von Welser is a member of the Munich Bar Association, the German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR), the German Society for Law and Informatics (DGRI), the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI) and the International Trademark Association (INTA).

Dr. Marcus von Welser studied at the University of Berlin and at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, where he obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He received his doctorate in copyright law from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.