Intellectual Property and Technology

Dr. iur. Constantin Rehaag, M.A., is a partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office and Co-Head of the IP/T practice group in Germany. He has more than 15 years’ experience in intellectual property, unfair competition and trade secrets’ law. He focuses on unfair competition and IP litigation, anti-counterfeiting and related criminal law matters, as well as trademark and design prosecution. His IP-litigation practice encompasses trademark, design, copyright and patent litigation. In view of the latter, he represents companies in patent infringement proceedings before the patent litigation chambers in cooperation with patent law firms. In particular in connection with unfair competition issues and in situations of crisis, Constantin advises and represents clients in privacy matters.

Numerous national and international groups and companies rely on his advice and proven litigation experience. His sector experience covers the following industries: pharma, e-commerce, entertainment, air transportation, luxury goods and fashion, automotive, toys, music and publishing, printing and office machinery.

Constantin is certified specialist lawyer for intellectual property law (“Fachanwalt für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz”) regularly publishes articles on intellectual property law as well as business secrets. He is a lecturer-in-law at the University of Passau as well as at the German Judicial Academy (Deutsche Richterakademie) where he provides advanced training to German judges and public prosecutors. He also gives courses at EUROJUST, the European prosecution service, where he trains public prosecutors from all Member States of the European Union. Constantin is a frequent speaker on litigation and business secret issues at patent and IP conferences.

Constantin was recently appointed to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Observatory Legal Expert Group. The Group, comprised of 29 individuals, provides support to the European Commission, works on case law, and carries out studies related to legal matters such as trade secrets, copyrights and blocking orders, and other intellectual property topic.

Specialist Lawyer for Intellectual Property Law, Germany, 2010

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2005

Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, 2005, Dr. iur.

University of Freiburg, 2003-2005, Master of Arts, Political Science and Law

Legal clerkship, 2001-2003, Flensburg

University of Freiburg, 1997-2000, Political Science and Law

University of Wales, 1996-1997, Diploma in Legal studies