Mag.
Michaela Petsche
Practice Areas
- Trademark law (litigation and non-contentious enforcement, strategic assessments, advice and portfolio design, contract law)
- Copyright law (digital copyright law; arts, music, film incl. FISA+ funding)
- Patent law (litigation, license agreements, employee inventions)
- Design law
- Unfair Competition (UWG) (assessment of advertising measures and contentious enforcement)
- E-Commerce
- Life Sciences & Healthcare (pharmaceutical, medicinal products and medical devices law; cosmetics and nutrition)
Education and Career
- Partner at Gassauer-Fleissner (since 2025)
- Counsel (previously: Senior Associate) at Baker McKenzie (2021-2024)
- Cooperation Partner at Schwarz Schönherr (2014-2021)
- Consultant (previously: Associate holding the Bar Exam) at Wolf Theiss (2011-2014)
- Bar Exam (summa cum laude), Vienna Bar Association/Higher Regional Court, Vienna (2010)
- Associate at Schwarz Schönherr (2007-2011)
- Legal Clerkship, Circuit of the Higher Regional Court, Vienna (i.a. Commercial Court Vienna, IP Division) (2006)
- Postgraduate Exchange Program „IP/IT Law”, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven / Brussels, Belgium (2005)
- Project assignment at Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, U.S. (2004)
- Diploma Studies of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna (Master of Law / Mag. iur. 2004)
- Internship Austrian Trade Commission, New York, U.S. (2004)
- Summer Institute of International and Comparative Law, Cornell Law School (N.Y.) – Université Paris I – Sorbonne, Paris (2003)
Languages
- German
- English
Memberships
- MARQUES
- Austrian Association for Industrial Property and Copyright (ÖV)
- INTA
- ECTA
Teaching and Lecturing Activities
Project-specific lectures and presentations to clients in-house and at IP specialist conferences.
Publications
- Petsche/Beiglboeck
Austria: New stockpiling ordinance published
BM Global Compliance News (07/31/2024) - Petsche/Grama/Beiglboeck
Kommen Apps auf Rezept nach Österreich?
Der Standard (02/16/2024) - Feiler/Raschhofer/Petsche/et al.
EuGH beschneidet EU-Staaten bei Regulierung von Onlinediensten
Der Standard (12/14/2023) - Feiler/Petsche/Kittinger
KI erschwert Patentierung von Erfindungen
Der Standard (08/17/2023) - Petsche
Keyword Advertising unter bestimmten Umständen erlaubt
ÖBl 2021/45: OGH 20.10.2020, 4Ob 152/20m - Adocker/Wildhack/Petsche/Strobl
Stadler/Koller, Kommentar zum Patentgesetz (2019), § 22 PatG
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