Taylor Wessing

Trademarks, Design, Litigation, Dispute Resolution; Advertising, Copyright; Media, Unfair Competition

Partner

Dirk Wieddekind advises on all aspects of intellectual property law, both contentious and non-contentious. His clients include both start-up companies as well as leading brand owners, with a strong focus on the media, IT, and consumer goods industries.

Dirk is a graduate of the Universities of Freiburg, Germany and Aberdeen, Scotland. Before joining Taylor Wessing, Dirk was a research fellow with Professor Dr Hoffmann-Riem, Justice of the German Constitutional Court, at the Centre for Law and Innovation at the University of Hamburg, where his work focused on media, telecommunications and competition law.

Dirk is a member of the German Association for Intellectual Property Law and the author of several publications on media- and competition law issues.

Since 2008 Partner, Taylor Wessing 2003 – 2008 Associate, Taylor Wessing 2001 – 2003 Legal clerkship, Berlin and London 1998 – 2001 Research Assistant to Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Federal Constitutional Court judge (ret.), University of Hamburg

English, German

Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft e.V. (BVDW) Deutsche Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V. (GRUR) International Trademark Association (INTA) Media Law Resource Center (MLRC) Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale – ALAI Deutschland e.V.

2003 Second legal state examination, Hamburg 1998 – 2003 Doctoral studies and doctor’s degree, University of Hamburg 1998 First legal state examination, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995 Diploma in Legal Studies, University of Aberdeen