Lectures – Faculty of Law – Leibniz University Hannover

Talks and presentations in English (selection)

1.	Stanford Law School, Stanford/USA, Transnational Law Colloquium; topic: „Territoriality and Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation – The United States and Europe”, on 2 March 2009.
2.	Stanford Law School, Stanford/USA, JSD Research Colloquium; topic: „Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection – A Question of Numbers and Misperceptions”, on 7 April 2009.
3.	Berkeley University School of Law, Berkeley/USA, Boalt Hall, Bay Area Fellows – Intellectual Property & Technology Law Workshop; topic: „Extra-Territorial Trademark Protection in United States Federal Courts, 1947-2008”, on 7 May 2009.
4.	New York University School of Law, New York/USA, Hauser Global Fellows Forum; topic: „From International Goodwill to Transnational Policy: The Demise of Trademark Property in Conflicts Doctrine“, on 18 November 2011.
5.	Leuphana Universität, International Summer School; topic: „Market Communication – Economic and Legal Foundations”, on 18 May 2012.
6.	New York University School of Law, New York/USA, Center for Transnational Litigation and Commercial Law; topic: „The Doctrine of International Comity“ within the conference „Convergence or Divergence of EU and US Private International Law?”, on 26 October 2015.
7.	Southampton Law School, Faculty of Law, Southampton/UK; topic: „The Dimensions of ’Harm to the Trademark Owner’ – An Economic Analysis of L’Oréal/Bellure“, on 9 August 2016.
8.	Oxford Intellectual Property Discussion Group (IPDG), Oxford University, St. Peter’s College, Oxford/UK; topic: „Behind the Steele Curtain: An Empirical Study of Trademark Conflicts Law, 1952-2016“, on 16 May 2017.
9.	Cambridge Center for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), Cambridge/UK; topic: „Behind the Steele Curtain: An Empirical Study of Trademark Conflicts Law, 1952-2016“, on 18 May 2017 (Audio podcast available at: cipil.law.cam.ac.uk).
10.	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York/USA, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, 10. und 11. August 2017; topic: Behind the Steele Curtain: An Empirical Study of Trademark Conflicts Law, 1952-2016“, on 11 August 2017.
11.	Università di Verona/Italien & University of Pittsburgh/USA, Summer School in: Transnational Commercial Law & Technology, Verona/Italien; topic: „Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property“, on 30 May 2019.
12.	Università di Verona/Italien & University of Pittsburgh/USA, Summer School in: Transnational Commercial Law & Technology, Verona/Italien; topic: „Big Data, Data Trading, and Data Protection“, on 31 May 2019.
13.	Università di Verona/Italien & University of Pittsburgh/USA, Summer School in: Transnational Commercial Law & Technology, Verona/Italien; topic: „Transnational Data Protection and the Right to Be Forgotten“, on 1 June 2019.
14.	Università di Verona/Italien Public Lecture & Ph.D. Forum Lecture; topic: „Artificial Intelligence and Contracting – Substantive Law and Choice of Law – What happens if your ‘smart fridge’ takes over?” on 22 September 2023.
15.	University of Aberdeen/UK, public online lecture at the Centre for Private International Law; topic: „AI and International Contracts: What law applies if your ‚smart fridge‘ takes over...?“, on 14 March 2024.
16.	European Parliament, Brüssel/Belgien, "Copyright and training of generative AI models" (Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Studie „Urheberrecht und Training generativer KI-Modelle – Technologische und juristische Grundlagen“), am 5. September 2024 (auf Einladung von MEP A. Voss, EVP-Fraktion).
17.	Assemblée Nationale de France, Paris/Frankreich; Roundtable: “Legal problems and possible solutions regarding the training of generative AI”, 30. April 2025 (par invitation de Mme. Députée Céline Calvez); topic: “Training of generative AI as copyright infringement: problems and solutions”.
18.	INGRES & ETH Zürich; Zurich IP-Retreat 2025: “Correlation between requirements for and scope of protection in IP Law”, 12.-13. September 2025; topic: “Unfair competition law at the crossroads – symmetry or non-symmetry?”.
19.	University of Illinois, Chicago, Law School, Chicago/USA; 69th Annual Intellectual Property, Information, & Privacy Law Conference, 7. November 2025; topic: “Genetic Resources, Patent Law, and Ethics – An International Perspective”.
20.	Lex & Forum Law Review and Sakkoulas Publications SA; Online conference on “The Law Applicable to Contractual and Non-Contractual Obligations: Reassessing Rome I and Rome II in the Age of Technology, Innovation and Cross-Border Litigation”, 4 Dezember 2025; topic: “The Rome system’s interplay with the Unified Patent Court Agreement and Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012”.
21.	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona/Spanien; Workshop of the RED.es project on AI and Digital Rights, “Digital Rights, Generative AI and Copyright”, 12. Dezember 2025; topic: “The Three-Step Test in International Copyright: A Global Framework for Generative AI Training”.
22.	Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona/Spanien; topic: “AI and Copyright: GEMA/OpenAI – a look at the mechanics of generative AI”, 10. Februar 2026.

Talks and presentations in German (selection)

1.	Meeting of the Law Enforcement Group of the Baden-Württemberg Judiciary,, Böblingen; topic: „Aktuelle Probleme und Entwicklungen der internationalen Produktpiraterie“, on 24 October 2007.
2.	Meeting of the Law Enforcement Group of the Baden-Württemberg Judiciary, 18 - 20 June 2008, Titisee im Breisgau; topic: „§ 16 UWG – Werbung zwischen Vermögens- und Wettbewerbsschutz“, on 20 June 2008.
3.	Leuphana University, Lüneburg; topic: „Das urheberrechtliche Änderungsverbot im Spannungsfeld zwischen Urheberpersönlichkeit und ökonomischer Analyse“, on 9 September 2010.
4.	Max Planck Institute for comparative and international Private Law Hamburg, Habilitanden-Kolloquium; topic: „Historischer Rechtsvergleich: Das Marken- und Lauterkeitskollisionsrecht in Deutschland und den USA (1800-2010)“, on 9 Mai 2011.
5.	Leuphana University, Fakulty of Business and Economics, Promotions- und Absolventenfeier; topic: „Das Dilemma der Erbensucher“, on 13 December 2013.
6.	University of Zurich/Switzerland, Faculty of Law, habilitation lecture; topic: „Art. 99 Abs. 1 lit. a Schweizer ZPO: Unzulässige Diskriminierung unter TRIPs?“, on 21 May 2014.
7.	University of Leipzig, Faculty of Law; topic: „Die internationale Erbensuche – IPR zwischen Verbraucherschutz, forum shopping und Wettbewerb der Rechtsordnungen“, on 17 April 2015.
8.	University of Kassel, Institute of Business and Economics, colloquium on Law and Economics; topic: „Behind the Steele Curtain – rechtsempirische Untersuchung des US-Markenkollisionsrechts“, on 30 May 2017.
9.	University of Kassel, Institute of Business and Economics, colloquium on Law and Economics; topic: „Urheberrecht, Ökonomik und Evolution – Kreativität im Gravitationsfeld multipler Einflussfaktoren”, on 24 October 2017.
10.	German Lawyers' Institute e.V. (DAI), Bochum, Annual conference on industrial property rights 2020; topic: „Künstliche Kreativität im Immaterialgüterrecht“, on 3 December 2020.
11.	German Association for Industrial Property and Copyrightlaw e.V. (district group north), ZOOM-Webinar; topic: Die „Schöpfung ohne Schöpfer“ – Künstliche Intelligenz im Urheber- und Patentrecht“, on 15 December 2020.
12.	University of Bayreuth, Research Center for Intellectual Property, Public Domain and Competition, ZOOM-Webinar; topic: „Künstliche Intelligenz und Patentrecht“, on 20 January 2021.
13.	Ruhr-University of Bochum, Institute for Intellectual Property, Data Protection and Information Technology, 3rd Bochum Information Law and Information Law Day: “Legal Issues of the Use of Artificial Intelligence”; topic: „Urheberrechts- und Designschutz für KI-Werke“, on 17 June 2021.
14.	Center for Digital Innovation Lower Saxony, Hanover, conference “Culture, Health and AI”; topic: „Kunst, KI und Urheberrecht,“ on 7 July 2022.
15.	University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law; topic: „Künstliche Intelligenz und internationaler Vertragsschluss,“ on 2 November 2022.
16.	Wolters Kluwer Verlag (Köln), 21nd Cologne Symposium on Trademark and Competition Law; topic: „Künstliche Intelligenz und Lauterkeitsrecht – Transparenz, Beeinflussung, Leistungsschutz,“ on 3 March 2023.
17.	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, Interdisciplinary Institute for Automated Systems (RifaS); topic: „Künstliche Intelligenz und Vertragsschluss,“ on 7 November 2023.
18.	University of Salzburg/Österreich, Regulating Economy – Commercial law discussions; topic: „Künstliche Intelligenz und Vertragsschluss,“ on 15 November 2023.
19.	University of Kassel, Institute for Business Law, colloquium on Law and Economics; topic: „Der Streit um Verletzung und Lizenzierung standardessentieller Patente – verhandlungsökonomische Perspektiven und praktische Konsequenzen,“ 28 November 2023.
20.	Wolters Kluwer Publisher (Cologne/Germany), 22nd Cologne Symposium on Trademark and Competition Law; topic: „Nation brands, genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions – Die Pläne der WIPO zu neuen Rechten im Geistigen Eigentum,“ 29 February 2024.
21.	Interdisciplinary Center for Intellectual Property, University of Mannheim (Mannheim/Germany); topic: “Künstliche Intelligenz und Lauterkeitsrecht,“ 21 March 2024.
22.	Central office for combating unfair competition (Bad Homburg/Germany), Symposium 2024; topic: “Künstliche Intelligenz und Wettbewerb – Lauterkeitsrecht am Abgrund?,“ 24 April 2024.
23.	ALAI Deutschland e.V. (Deutsche Landesgruppe der Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale); topic: „Urheberrecht und Training generativer KI-Modelle“, 10 October 2024.
24.	Ludwig Maximilians University and Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection, Verbraucherrechtstag 2024, München; topic: „Regulierung von Online-Plattformen“, 7 November 2024.
25.	German Association for Industrial Property and Copyrightlaw e.V. (district group Berlin), Humboldt-University Berlin; topic: „Generatives KI-Training und die Zweifel an der TDM-Schranke“, on 9. Dezember 2024.
26.	State Chancellery of the State North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Workshop „Künstliche Intelligenz und Urheberrecht“; Keynote-Präsentation: „Generatives KI-Training und die TDM-Schranke“, on 14. März 2025.
27.	Schulthess Forum Copyrightlaw, Bern/Schweiz, Conference on Copyright Law; Thema: „Generative KI, Text-und-Data-Mining, urheberrechtliche Vervielfältigung und öffentliche Zugänglichmachung“, on 24. September 2025.
28.	Göttingen Copyrightlaw Conference, University of Göttingen; topic: „Text-und-Data-Mining und generatives KI-Training“, on 4. November 2025.
29.	German Association for Industrial Property and Copyrightlaw e.V. (district group Hamburg); topic: „Von der Rechtsanwendung im KI-Maschinenraum – kritische Anmerkungen zu GEMA/OpenAI“, on 19. Januar 2026.
30.	German Association for Industrial Property and Copyrightlaw e.V. (district group west), Industrieclub Düsseldorf; topic: „Die Geschäftsführerhaftung für Patentverletzungen – kritische Analyse der EPG-Berufungsgerichtsentscheidung Belkin/Philips“, on 4. Mai 2026.

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