Author Archives: Marvin

Female lawyers tell their stories: Interview with Prof. Dr. Sabine Boos from Heilbronn University now online

The second episode of the new interview podcast “Juristinnen erzählen” is now online and can be streamed on all common platforms. Prof. Dr. Sabine Boos is our guest in this episode. Sabine Boos is a professor of engineering law at Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences. In the interview, she talks about her day-to-day work at […]

Alumni reunion 2023

On November 4, the annual ITM alumni reunion took place once again. I was delighted to welcome an overwhelming number of almost 60 participants from 25 years of the Institute’s history. The main focus of the presentations was on the upcoming restructuring and digitization strategy of the institute. In addition, a veteran guest scholar from […]

Review: Successful ITM International Day

On October 31, the ITM International Day took place with three exciting lectures by international guest scientists from Georgia and China. Sergi Jorbenadze from Georgia kicked off the event with an exciting presentation on blockchain and digitalization in Georgia. Mr. Jorbenadze is an associate professor at Ivane Javakhishvili University (TSU) in Tbilisi and used the […]

Reminder: Lecture by Dr. David Bomhard

Dr. David Bomhard’s lecture on “Contractual pitfalls in data trading” will be held again this winter semester via Zoom. Unfortunately, the acoustics were not satisfactory last semester and Mr. Bomhard kindly agreed to give the lecture again. The lecture will take place on 20.11.23 from 14-16 o’clock via Zoom.  Dr. David Bomhard studied both law […]

Lecture Art and Law – WS 23/24

Under the motto “Know your rights as an artist”, the lecture “Art and Law”, which is popular with young art students, took place again this semester on 20.10.2023. The two-hour block course is aimed at students of the Academy of Art who encounter legal issues in the context of their artistic practice or in the […]

Women lawyers tell their stories: the new interview podcast from the Research Center for Intellectual Property Law

The Research Center for Intellectual Property at the ITM has launched a new interview podcast. In order to get more young female lawyers interested in intellectual property law, we will be interviewing female IP lawyers about their careers in this podcast. Unfortunately, women working in this area of law are still underrepresented compared to their […]

Podcast: Mickey Mouse and copyright law

Copyright protection for the cartoon character “Mickey Mouse” expires in the USA at the end of 2023. For this reason, in this episode, research associates Klaus Palenberg and Nicolas John look at the copyright protection periods for German and international works. In addition to the principles of German copyright law, the various international treaties are […]

AND NOW? – Impulse lecture on art law for young artists from NRW

On 20.09.2023, Marie Wirtz (Art Law Clinic Münster) took part as a speaker in the exciting orientation event “UND JETZT?”, which was aimed at graduates of the art academies in NRW. The main aim of the seminar was to support up-and-coming creatives on their way to professionalizing their art practice. Over the course of two […]

Podcast: The European Health Data Space (EHDS)

The EU’s data strategy creates a new area of law: data economy law. While data law has so far focused primarily on the protection of personal data and, more recently, the security of the data infrastructure, the new legal acts (Data Act, Data Governance Act and the sector-specific data rooms) are aimed primarily at the […]