Portrait

Julia Voegeli-Wenzl brings international expertise and strategic thinking to complex issues of intellectual property. As a specialist lawyer for industrial property protection, she guides companies through the entire spectrum of trademark, design, competition, and copyright law – from preventive advice to decisive enforcement in courts and offices.

Her career took her from an international law firm in Hamburg to a partnership in a law firm specialized in IP law in Frankfurt to NOTOS.

Julia Voegeli-Wenzl understands intellectual property rights as strategic corporate assets: She develops tailored portfolios for trademarks and designs at the German, European, and international levels and drafts contracts that securely safeguard economic interests. When conflicts arise, she represents her clients in contentious proceedings.

She advises in German, English, and Spanish.

Vita

Since 2020
Notos, Partner

2016 – 2019
Partner at Keil & Schaafhausen Patent and Lawyers PartGmbB

2010 – 2015
Lawyer at Keil & Schaafhausen Patent and Lawyers PartGmbB

2006 – 2010
Lawyer at Taylor Wessing Hamburg

Education

Doctorate and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich

Referendariat at the OLG Celle with postings at the Senate Chancellery Hamburg, a regional law firm, and the German Embassy in Mexico

Studied law at the University of Konstanz and at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Memberships

German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright (GRUR)

International Trademark Association (INTA)

Tax & Legal Excellence (TLE)

Commentaries / Co-authorships

• Co-author in: BeckOK Design Law, ed. Vohwinkel, C.H.Beck 2022

• Co-author in: Handbook Media Agencies. Fields of Activity, Business Models, Contract and Competition Law, ed. Gaedertz / Martinek / Ory, C.H.Beck 2016 on "Business Models of Media Agencies".

Monographs

The Regulation of the Domain Name System Internet Governance by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Cologne 2006 (Carl Heymanns Verlag)

Court Decisions

• OLG Braunschweig: Secondary burden of presentation for the straw woman of an "eBay-break-off hunter", in: GRUR-Prax 2022, 679

• OLG Hamm: Permissible exchange of information, in: GRUR-Prax 2022, 643

• CJEU: Cost reimbursement for patent attorneys in trademark disputes only with necessary involvement, in: GRUR-Prax 2022, 403

• OLG Düsseldorf: Provisional injunction despite ceased infringement – Ceiling light, in: GRUR-RR 2022, 257

• CJEU: Distinctive character of a bottle shape as a 3D trademark, in: GRUR-Prax 2021, 345

• BPatG: "Content Nation" – Distinctive character due to diffuse content, in: GRUR-Prax 2021, 345

• BGH: Unfair commercial practice through unjustified payment demand from a collection agency, in: GRUR-Prax 2020, 336

• EuG: "THE ONLY ONE by α alpha spirit wild and perfect" not comparable with "ONE", in: GRUR-Prax 2020, 61

Essays

• Reform proposals for the modernization of European design law – Part II, in GRUR-Prax 2023, 219

• Reform proposals for the modernization of European design law – Part I, in GRUR-Prax 2023, 189

• Internet Governance using the example of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in: GRUR Int 2007, 807

• Brömmelmeyer, Christoph: Internet Competition Law. The Law of Ubiquity in: GRUR Int 2007, 784

Book Reviews

• Bettinger, Torsten (ed): Handbook of Domain Law. National Protection Systems and International Dispute Resolution in GRUR Int 2009, 182

• Brömmelmeyer, Christoph: Internet Competition Law. The Law of Ubiquity in: GRUR Int 2007, 784