Mag.
Manuel Wegrostek
LL.M.
Practice Areas
- Patent law (litigation and technology transfer)
- Trademark law
- Unfair competition, advertising law
- Copyright law
- Design law
- Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Law
- IT-Law
- Contract Law (focus on R&D, cooperation-, licensing and software agreements)
Education and Career
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Law (Mag. iur. 2008)
- Associate at Gassauer-Fleissner (2010 – 2014)
- Cardozo School of Law, NY, (LL.M. Intellectual Property Law, 2015)
- Admitted to the NY Bar (since March 2016)
- Associate at Ladas & Parry LLP, NY (01 – 06/2016)
- Associate at Gassauer-Fleissner ( 07 – 10/2016)
- Attorney at Gassauer-Fleissner (11/2016 – 03/2019)
- Partner at Gassauer-Fleissner (since 04/2019)
Languages
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
Memberships
- AIPPI
- INTA
- Österreichische Vereinigung für Gewerblichen Rechtschutz und Urheberrecht (ÖV)
- EPLAW
- Marques
Teaching and Lecturing Activities
Regular lectures at universities and conferences on intellectual property, including the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, the University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University), and at the annual WU IP Day.
Publications
- Wegrostek
ÖBl 2024/41: OGH 30.5.2023, 4 Ob 55/23a
„Der Hirsch auf der Flasche“ - Wegrostek
ÖBl 2020/21: EuGH 29.7.2019, C-124/18 P
Eindeutigkeit und Klarheit einer Farbmarke - Wegrostek
ÖBl 2019/65: EuGH 27.3.2019, C-578/17
Ein "Bild von einer Farbmarke"? - Gassauer-Fleissner/Wegrostek/et al
Patent enforcement in Europe - A country-by-country overview,
Europäisches Patentamt 2019 - Co-Autor in Stadler/Koller (Hrsg.)
PatG Kommentar, Nach § 23 (Erschöpfung) und Vor § 147 ff (1),
Linde Verlag (2019) - Flip Petillon (ed.)
Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the EU Member States
Austria Chapter, Intersentia Cambridge (2019) - Beetz, Mosing, Plasser, Schumacher, Wegrostek
MSchG-Nov 2019 – Abschluss der österreichischen Umsetzung der Modernisierung des europäischen Markenrechts
ÖBl 2019/2 - Co-Autor in
Compulsory Licensing in Europe,
Austria chapter, European Patent Academy (2018)
Team