Nils Böhmer advises our clients in matters of intellectual property law, in particular in trademark, design and competition law. He focuses on strategic advice, the procedural enforcement of intellectual property rights and competition law claims and the defence against infringement claims. Nils Böhmer also assists our clients in establishing and expanding their international trademark portfolios and, in this context, conducts registration, opposition and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
Nils Böhmer studied law at the Ruhr University of Bochum and completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm with stations, among others, in commercial law firms in the fields of industrial property law and corporate law. Nils Böhmer has been working as an attorney at Schneiders & Behrendt since 2020.
Professional career
- Studied law at the Ruhr University of Bochum, 1st state examination 2017
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, 2017 – 2019
- Master’s program in Intellectual Property Law, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Master of Laws (LL.M.) 2022
Lectures
- Lecture “Introduction to Patent and Trademark Law” at TU Dortmund University
Memberships in professional associations
- Arbeitskreis für Wettbewerbs- und Markenrecht Westfalen-Lippe e. V. (Westphalia-Lippe Working Group for Competition and Trademark Law)
- Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
- Bochumer Kreis Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz e. V. (Bochum Association for Intellectual Property Rights)
Publications (free translation)
- “On the interpretation of the notice of opposition in the EUIPO’s online tool”, GRUR-Prax 2023, 158 (comment on ECJ judgment of February 1, 2023 – T-349/22, GRUR-RS 2023, 714 – HACKER SPACE / HACKER PSCHORR)
- “Jurisdiction of higher regional courts in North Rhine-Westphalia for claims based on publications (on the Internet)”, GRUR-Prax 2023, 614
- “Contractual penalty clause in cease-and-desist declaration as general terms and conditions”, GRUR-Prax 2024, 120
