Attorneys / Notaries

Hauke Hansen has worked as an attorney since 2004, advising national and international clients on IT, copyright, trademark, and unfair competition law both in litigation and non-litigation matters. He advises hardware and software companies, as well as their private and public clients, on the purchase and sale of software and hardware, IT projects, and digitalization of work processes; his clients also include agencies and e-commerce start-up companies. His specialties include IT and data protection law, licensing law including Open Source, unfair competition law, advertising law, and e-commerce. Dr. Hansen is an active member of the Federal Association of Digital Business (Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft – BVDW) and the German Association of Law and Informatics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik – DGRI). 

Hauke Hansen also has extensive experience establishing, monitoring, and defending, industrial property rights in various industries. One particular focus of his legal practice is developing and implementing anti-piracy campaigns and litigating infringements, for example under trademark, design patent, or copyright law. Another speciality of Dr. Hansen is combining civil law and criminal law remedies to effectively enforce the interests of his clients.

In addition, Dr. Hansen is a lecturer at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main teaching seminars on litigation management and strategy. He also teaches the Master of Laws course "International Studies in Intellectual Property Law" at the University Dresden. He regularly publishes articles in German legal journals such as "GRUR" and "IT-Rechtsberater."