Dr. Thomas C. Körber|Partner
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- Admitted to the German bar in 2004, joined ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN in 2014
- Dr. Körber is a recommended expert and certified specialist lawyer for intellectual property rights with focus on trademark and competition law, sports law, chemical law, food law, cosmetics law, and medical law. He is a seminar leader at GRUR on trademark, competition, and sports law, a lecturer on intellectual property law at various universities, and an arbitrator at the German Sports Arbitration Court of the DIS. He also gives regular lectures and is the author of numerous scientific publications in leading journals. He advises and litigates—often in particularly complex, international, and urgent proceedings—for large and medium-sized companies with a special focus on the sports, chemical, food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, real estate, media, and textile industries. Dr. Körber represents his clients’ interests before German and European courts and before authorities such as the various trademark, design, and patent offices, as well as the BVL and supervisory authorities. His approach to advising and representing clients is holistic: it usually begins with his clients’ product idea and continues with ensuring comprehensive and tailored legal protection, product labeling, representation before authorities to obtain the necessary approvals, advising on marketing concepts/materials, and monitoring infringements of rights with a view to stopping them as quickly as possible. Due to his many years of experience and expertise in the field of sports law, particularly with regard to the protection, defense, and marketing of rights in sports, Dr. Körber has been appointed to the newly established examination board for specialist lawyers in sports law by the Frankfurt am Main Bar Association.
- Professional experience: wide-range experience focussing on trademark, design, and competition law, sports, chemistry, food, cosmetics, and medical law at Klinkert PartGmbB law firm (2010–2014), Kaye Scholer LLP (2008–2010), and Mayer Brown LLP (2004–2008)
- Legal clerkship in Frankfurt/Main, Speyer, Barcelona, London (2001–2003)
- Studied at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main
- Specialist lawyer for the protection of industrial property rights (since 2010)
- Specialist lawyer for sports law (since 2020)
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- Memberships: Scientific Society of Food Law Association, German Association for Commercial Legal Protection and Property Law, German-Spanish Bar Association, International Sports Lawyers Association
- Lecturer for GRUR seminar on sports law (exploitation rights in sports, arbitrator at the German Sports Arbitration Court of the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS), lecturer for the “Sports Law” degree program at the University of Münster, speaker for European Handball Manager (sports law) at the German Sport University Cologne, lecturer for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program “Strategic Management” at Leuphana University Lüneburg in the field of “Corporate Law and Intellectual Property,” coach for “Best Excellence” (start-up initiative of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) to support start-up companies, lecturer for the 1st specialist lawyer course in sports law and event announcement
- Languages: German, English, Spanish
- Awards:
- JUVE: Dr. Thomas Körber (“fast, good, dedicated, competitor; IP”)
- Chambers Europe 2012: Intellectual Property Germany “Up-and-coming individuals”
- Chambers Europe 2012: Intellectual Property Germany “Thomas Körber is praised as “a very committed and creative lawyer with profound knowledge of IP law and good business sense.”
- Credentials:
- DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga GmbH, Bundesliga International GmbH – extrajudicial and judicial proceedings against German and international games retailers, companies producing merchandising articles, and domain owners for passing-off and unfair competition and freedom of expression disputes
- Drafting of agreements for professional licensed football players with the German premier and second league and their clubs to transfer marketing rights
- National and international marketing and exploitation of graphics identifications
- Werner & Merz Group (owner of inter alia the popular trademarks FROSCH and Erdal Rex) in respect of industrial and private use
- Erdal Rex GmbH, tana-Chemie GmbH, BNS Bergal, Nico & Soltaire Vertriebs GmbH – obtaining numerous landmark court decisions regarding CLP as well as the REACH Regulation on competition law matters as well as environmentally related advertising issues and the product labelling of detergents and other chemical products and materials
- Representation of a leading sports goods manufacturer before the European Court of Justice, obtaining several German and European court decision including a landmark decision on the scope of protection of one-letter trademarks
- Representation of globally leading beverage producers before the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, obtaining several rulings of general application on the permission to distribute the products in Germany)
- Comprehensive (including strategic) advice and representation of the world’s leading manufacturer of refrigeration systems for environmental simulation. The client has among others represented by us towards authorities on the import and production of F-gases and for the purpose of applying for the F-gas quota and labelling until the pre-filled equipment is placed on the market.Most recently we have advised our client in particular on the interpretation and implementation of the requirements of the planned new F-Gas Regulation (current draft 2022/0099(COD)), including the categorisation of various systems and their implications in accordance with the new F-Gas Regulation for the transitional periods and the processing of applications to obtain exemptions for placing refrigeration systems on the market.