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Dr. Fabian Pfuhl, LL.M. (Auckland)

Senior Associate
Frankfurt

Dr. Fabian Pfuhl, LL.M. (Auckland)
Email
fabian.pfuhl@hoganlovells.com
Phone
+49 69 962 36 0
Fax
+49 69 962 36 100
Languages
English, German
Practice Group
Intellectual Property
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Fabian Pfuhl is knowledgeable in defending his clients against any forms of product counterfeiting and product piracy, particularly with respect to the pharmaceutical and consumer-lifestyle sector. Fabian has in-depth knowledge, acquired by advising in a multitude of cases in these industries. Fabian's legal advice focuses on national and international clients in trademark and unfair competition matters, where he counsels both in and out of court.

Fabian regularly publishes articles in German law reviews and gives lectures on IP law topics. Inter alia, he acted as speaker at the German Pharmaceuticals Congress from 2012 to 2015. Since 2012, he has been a lecturer at the Hochschule Darmstadt where he teaches License Law and Contract Design.

Fabian studied in Bayreuth, Germany, and later on in Auckland, New Zealand, where he graduated as Master of Law. After receiving a Ph.D. in Law with a dissertation in the field of unfair competition law, he worked as an Academic Council at the Research Center for German and European Foodstuff Legislation at the University of Bayreuth.

Practices

Industries

Areas of Focus

Representative Experience

Advising Pierre Fabre Dermo-Kosmetik and Pierre Fabre Pharma in advertising law matters, particularly in the field of advertisements for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

Ongoing advice for Philips in unfair competition and other advertising-related matters.

Ongoing advice for Skoda Deutschland GmbH in advertising regulation matters.

Counselling and litigation in cases of unfair competition and product counterfeiting, especially in the field of preliminary injunctions, for a well-known Austrian company.

Advising a leading pharmaceutical company in various cases of trademark infringements (particularly illegal parallel-imports) and product piracy.

Ongoing advice in civil and criminal law matters for a world-wide leading pharmaceutical company on the field of fighting grey and black pharmaceutical markets.

Advising a namable financial institution in a number of IT outsourcing projects.

Education and admissions

Education

  • LL.M., University of Auckland, 2010
  • Dr. iur., University of Bayreuth, 2009
  • Second State Exam in Law, State of Bavaria, 2009
  • First State Exam in Law, University of Bayreuth, 2006

Memberships

  • German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright - GRUR
  • Frankfurt a. M. Bar Association

Bar admissions and qualifications

  • Frankfurt, Germany

Court admissions

  • Germany

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