Category Archives: General

New chatbot RechtsMentor

We’re done !!! I have now dedicated myself to the further development of the new AI project. After extensive brainstorming and numerous considerations (also by the tireless ITM employee Merlin Rombach – thank you, thank you, thank you), I can now present the first iteration of the RechtsMentor – ITM GPT (link below). In my […]

Anniversary celebration 25 years of the Intellectual Property Research Center

Yesterday, a large audience attended the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Research Center at the University of Münster. The keynote speaker was former ITM doctoral candidate and former presiding judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Professor Dr. Thomas Kühnen, who gave a fascinating presentation on the relationship between antitrust law […]

Successful “Best of ITM” seminar

  The “Best of ITM” experiment has come to a successful end. In their seminar papers, 10 students had to read, review and check the topicality of old ITM doctoral theses. The enthusiastic reviewers selected from a pool of more than 200 dissertations on blockchain law, consumer and data protection on the internet, copyright law […]

Successful doctoral examination: Lars Rieck defends his dissertation on tattoos and copyright with top marks

On Monday, attorney Lars Rieck (Hamburg) successfully defended his dissertation on the subject of “Tattooing and copyright law”. The examination took place at Chemnitz University of Technology under the chairmanship of Professor Dr. Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl and Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren and consisted of a disputation and two short presentations in which he convincingly presented his […]

News at the halfway point of LDE

Who would have thought it? Unforeseen success of the new additional Law of the Digital Economy course! We started with formal commitments from five universities: The new additional training course on legal issues in European and international data law slowly took off in 2024. It soon became clear that we had reached the limits of […]

BGH: Photo wallpaper – new comment by Thomas Hoeren

BGH decides on the copyright permissibility of the use of images of a photo wallpaper. Thomas Hoeren writes in his comment on the ruling of the BGH that the decision is one of the most beautiful rulings of the BGH in matters of copyright contract law. The distinction between contract law on the granting of […]

11th Data Protection Conference of the German Research Network in Hamburg

The team from the Legal Research Unit took part in the 11th Data Protection Conference in the beautiful city of Hamburg. During the atypical but wonderfully sunny weather on the first day of the conference, the team from the DFN Legal Research Unit gained valuable insights. A central theme of the conference was the use […]

Data protection in Tiblisi

15 ნოემბერს მიუნსტერის უნივერსიტეტის პროფესორი ტომას ჰოერენი გამართავს საჯარო სემინარს მონაცემთა დაცვის სამართალსა და GDPR-ის რეგულაციებზე. სემინარზე განხილული იქნება ევროპული და საერთაშორისო მონაცემთა დაცვის სტანდარტები და საქართველოს 2024 წლის მონაცემთა დაცვის კანონი. პროფესორ ჰოერენთან ერთად, ლექციას წარუძღვებიან პერსონალურ მონაცემთა დაცვის სამსახურის წარმომადგენლები: ნიკოლოზ პოპიაშვილი – სამსახურის უფროსის აპარატის ხელმძღვანელი და ანა თოხაძე – საერთაშორისო ურთიერთობების, […]

Thomas Hoeren at the University Council

The chairmen of the university councils of North Rhine-Westphalian universities met on Monday (November 4) to exchange experiences. One of the focal points was the recently published draft bill for the NRW Higher Education Strengthening Act. The draft was discussed in detail with the State Minister for Culture and Science, Ina Brandes. As Chairman of […]