Mag Hans Lederer > CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH
GAUERMANNGASSE 2
1010 WIEN
Austria
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Work Department

Intellectual Property, Consumer Products, TMC

Position

Partner

Career

Hans Lederer is a partner in the Intellectual Property Law Department. His expertise comprises strategic advice in connection with securing and enforcing trademark and design rights, managing international trademark and design portfolios, representing clients in application, opposition and cancellation proceedings before the Austrian Patent Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO, and implementing cross-border measures to combat product piracy.

He also has extensive knowledge and many years of experience in copyright matters as well as moral rights and media law, and lectures on these topics at the University of Applied Sciences FH Burgenland. Furthermore, he regularly advises and represents clients in patent law matters, especially in connection with employee inventions.

He frequently publishes articles on trademark and copyright law in professional journals such as Österreichische Blätter für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (ÖBl) and Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW).

“These industries, characterised as they are by dynamism and innovation, require creative and forward-looking legal approaches and arguments based on both in-depth industry knowledge and knowledge of the relevant legal provisions.”

Before joining CMS Vienna, Hans Lederer worked as a project manager and lawyer in the General Secretariat of the Austrian Red Cross. He studied law at the Universities of Innsbruck, Caen (France) and Vienna.

Languages

German, English, French

Memberships

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Austrian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (ÖV)

Education

  • 2004 – Mag. iur., Law, University of Vienna

Lawyer Rankings

Austria > Intellectual property

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s ‘extremely competent’ team advises clients on all aspects of IP projects, including trade mark, copyright and patent registrations and prosecutions. The group often leverages its international network to assist clients with long-running global portfolio management, in addition to handling matters concerning trade secrets and traditional IP disputes. Practice head Egon Engin-Deniz takes a ‘direct, bold and very effective’ approach to trade mark, patent and domain issues when assisting pharmaceutical, IT and consumer clients. Gabriela Staber‘s maintains a regulatory and IP focused practice, while Hans Lederer, who was promoted to partner in February 2023, focuses on trade mark prosecution and copyright matters.