Category Archives: Podcasts

New podcast episode with Dr. Beate Berger on the topic of mediation

In the 14th episode of Women lawyers tell Dr. Beate Berger will be our guest. Dr. Berger is a lawyer and certified family and business mediator with her own law firm in Cologne. She has already worked as an IP/IT lawyer in various law firms, including as a founding partner at GÖRG. She now works […]

New podcast episode on balancing family and career as an IP lawyer

In keeping with tomorrow’s International Women’s Day, we’re back with a new installment of our women lawyers’ stories – this time in the form of a a special on the topic of Reconciling family and career. We were able to win two guests for this event: Jessica Bucher and Dr. Ulrike Kaufmann. Both work as […]

Schrems vs. Meta

Data protection activist Max Schrems has obtained a judgment against Meta before the ECJ. The case concerns the permissible storage period of data and the question of the permissibility of processing particularly sensitive data. In this episode, research associates Ole-Christian Tech and Marc-Philipp Geiselmann discuss how the ECJ actually applies the principle of data minimization […]

Women lawyers tell their stories: new episode with Danielle Hertneck is online

Danielle Hertneck is our guest in the 12th episode of Juristinnen erzählen . Danielle is a partner at Witzel Erb Backu und Partner in Munich. She is a specialist lawyer for IT law and intellectual property law and is one of the founding partners of the law firm, which was established in 2020. In intellectual […]

Bismarck and the right to one’s own image

An everyday scenario at universities: At conferences and meetings, numerous photos are taken of guests and participants, which are then published on websites and social media. While organizers have an understandable interest in documenting and promoting their events, these photos raise important legal questions. In this episode, research associates Johannes Müller and Ole-Christian Tech shed […]

New podcast episode with corporate lawyer Nicole Ockl

In the 11th episode of Women lawyers tell Nicole Ockl is our guest. Nicole is Group Director IP Legal, Domains and Licenses at TUI and manages the group-wide IP matters with her team of 12. She previously worked as a lawyer in various law firms, most recently as a partner at the British-German law firm […]

New podcast episode with Dr. Katharina Brandt from Kather Augenstein

In the 10th episode of Women lawyers tell Dr. Katharina Brandt is our guest. Katharina works as a lawyer at Kather Augenstein, a boutique law firm in Düsseldorf specializing in IP law. Katharina first came into contact with patent law during her additional training in intellectual property law at the University of Münster. The field […]

Whistleblower Protection Act

The new Whistleblower Protection Act aims to provide comprehensive protection for employees who become aware of and wish to report wrongdoing in companies. To this end, reporting offices are to be set up and the whistleblower is to remain anonymous. In this episode, research assistants Johannes Müller and Marc-Philipp Geiselmann discuss who has to set […]

What is it like to work as a patent attorney? – Interview with Dr. Renate Weisse

In the 9th episode of Women lawyers tell Dr. Renate Weisse is our guest. Renate is a patent attorney with her own law firm in Berlin. She studied physics and chemistry, obtained a doctorate and an LL.M. degree. in international intellectual property law. In this episode, Renate talks about the challenges she faced during her […]

New podcast episode with Ulrike Voß (UPC)

In the 8th episode of Women lawyers tell Ulrike Voß is our guest. Ms. Voß has been a judge at the Unified Patent Court in the central and local division in Munich since last year and was previously the presiding judge of a patent litigation senate at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf. In this […]