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Henrik Steffen Becker

Partner, Certified specialist for industrial property rights

Henrik Steffen Becker is a lawyer specialising in the field of intellectual property rights. He has years of experience above all in competition law as well as in the field of non-technical property rights (trademarks). Here Henrik Steffen Becker advises internationally active companies from the food, drinks and tobacco industry as well as the healthcare, power supply, telecommunication and IT sectors. His work includes the setting up and administering of German, European and international trademark portfolios. In this field he represents clients in application, opposition and cancellation procedures at the German Patent and Trademark Office as well as the European Intellectual Property Office in the Internal Market. Henrik Steffen Becker also assists clients with the judicial and extrajudicial enforcement of and defence against claims. Furthermore, he supports and advises clients to ensure that their marketing measures and advertising campaigns comply with all legal regulations. Besides press law and freedom of speech regulations, Henrik Steffen Becker also offers legal advice on licensing rights, copyright law and telecommunications law.

Practice areas
  • Intellectual property rights, especially competition law and trademark law
  • Press law and freedom of speech regulations
  • License contract law
  • Copyright law
  • Telecommunications law
  • Litigation
Vita
  • 1993 - 1997 Law studies in Mainz
  • 2001 Admitted to the German bar
  • 2008 Certified Specialist for Industrial Property Rights
  • 2001 - 2011 Lawyer at law firm Danckelmann and Kerst, Frankfurt/Main
  • Since January 2012 Lawyer at RITTERSHAUS
  • 2019 Partner of RITTERSHAUS law firm
     
Other activities and memberships
  • Member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht - GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
  • Member of the Marketingclub Frankfurt/Main e. V.
Publications
  • "Eine Suche zum Vergessen“, NJW-aktuell 25/2023, S. 19
  • "Steht Ihr Flug noch zum Einsteigen bereit?“ – Anmerkungen zum fliegenden Gerichtsstand im UWG-Prozess (gemeinsam mit Dr. Martin Schmidhuber), Zeitschrift für das Recht der digitalen Wirtschaft (ZdiW) 2022, 144 ff.
  • Ab der 25. Edition Autor der im Verlag C.H. Beck erschienenen Formularsammlung „Beck´sche Online-Formulare Medizinrecht“ (Herausgeber Clausen / Krafczyk), Kapitel „Arztbewertungsportale“, 2020
  • "AGB: Die Abmahnfalle für Betriebe", Veröffentlichung vom 19.12.2013 im Online-Portal der DeutschenHandwerksZeitung - die Wirtschaftszeitung für den Mittelstand
  • "Wer wirbt, darf seine Rechtsform nicht verschweigen", Artikel im Ressort Recht und Steuern der FAZ vom 06.11.2013 Nr. 258, S. 19
  • Der beliebteste Anbieter I und II - gemeinsame Anmerkung zu den Entscheidungen des OLG Hamburg vom 11.11.2009, 5 U 57/09 bzw. 5 U 214/08 (MMR 2010, 331 ff.)
  • Verkehrsverständnis bei bundesweitem Werbemedium - gleichzeitig Anmerkung zu der Entscheidung des LG Hamburg vom 11.03.2011, 406 O 166/10 (MMR 2011, 389 f.)
  • Anruf in Abwesenheit!? Der Ping-Anruf - Ein "Klassiker" neu aufgelegt (WRP 2011, 808 ff.)
  • “Anmerkung zum BGH-Urteil vom 4. April 2017, VI ZR 123/16 - Haftung von Portalbetreibern für Äußerungen Dritter (MMR 2017, 526 ff.)”.

My motto

“The future depends on what you do today.” Mahatma Gandhi

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