Team

EDUCATION AND CAREER

• University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (Dr. iur. 1980)
• Associate at Weiss-Tessbach (1981 – 1985)
• Foreign associate at Clifford Turner, Paris (1985)
• Partner at Weiss-Tessbach (1986 – 2002)
• Member of the Ethics Commission of the Vienna Law Society (1998 – 2004)
• Lecturer at ETH Zurich postgraduate programme Intellectual Property (2000 – 2006)
• WIPO domain name panelist (since 2000)
• Partner at Gassauer-Fleissner (since 2002)
• Lecturer at the University of Human Sciences of the Principality of Liechtenstein programme: Asset formation and transfer (University years 2006/07 – 2007/08)
• Member of the Board of Examiners for the bar examination (2006 – 2011)
• Board member of various corporations, private foundations and non-profit associations

PRACTICE AREAS

• Intellectual property (patent and trade mark), unfair competition
• Advising entrepreneurs and their private foundations
• Advising businesses, in particular family owned industry as well as agriculture and forestry
• Corporate law
• General commercial and contract law
• Advising institutions in sport, culture and science
• National and international arbitration, mainly as arbitrator

LANGUAGES

• German
• English
• French

MEMBERSHIPS

• AIPPI
• APEB
• APRAM
• Ligue Internationale du Droit de la Concurrence
• Austrian Association for Industrial Property and Copyright
• LES
• EPLAW (Member of the Board 2009 – 2014, President 2012 – 2014, member of advisory board since 2015)
• ECTA
• INTA
• Federation of Austrian Private Foundations
• Austrian Association for Arbitration
• IBA
• UIA
• Wiener Advokatengesellschaft “UNION”
• Member of the Law Committee of the Austrian Federation of Industry