Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen

Stephan von Petersdorff Campen, partner of rospatt osten pross, has worked for more than 30 years in all fields of industrial property rights and competition law. His experience as a trial attorney also benefits his clients especially when he is retained to provide advice on legal issues and corporate strategies. When one is familiar with areas of conflict from conducting a great deal of litigation, it is possible to anticipate problems. In the field of patent law, he most commonly appears for companies from the sectors of mechanical and plant engineering, automotive technology, domestic appliances, textiles, building materials and building technology. One focus is trade mark and design law, where he not only appears in court, but among other things also advises companies in the luxury goods industry and in commerce on developing and implementing protection or defensive strategies. In product piracy cases, customs seizures and criminal proceedings are regular activities. The focus of his professional activities in competition law is on work for agencies and special aspects of competition law, such as cases involving technical and scientific issues and protecting company secrets. He appears for his clients before all the German courts with jurisdiction for industrial property rights and before the European Court of Justice. Especially in the field of trade mark law, he has acted as counsel in a whole series of pioneering decisions. Recently he co-represented clients before the Supreme Court (BGH) in cases on rights of prior use in trademark law and new aspects with regard to the protection of fashion designs by Unfair Competition Law. The change in German case law going back many years, which concerned damages by surrender of the infringer’s profit was due to a test case he fought (BGH "Gemeinkostenanteil" [Federal Court of Justice "Share of overheads"]). In international IP cases and cases covering more than the field of industrial property rights, he coordinates the advice, strategy development and litigation conduct with patent attorneys and other specialists. He has spoken at seminars for the textile industry and is the co-author of "Handbuch Mode-Marketing" – "Manual of Fashion Marketing" (Deutscher Fachverlag). · rospatt