Tim Engelhardt LL.M.

Tim Engelhardt joined JBB Rechtsanwälte in 2009.  He provides advice to companies and individuals in the fields of software, copyright and licensing law, in particular on issues of open source software.  As he qualified both in German and US law, he often focuses on trans-border issues and works regularly with international clients.

Copyright law, software law, licensing law

Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V. (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. (German Society for Law & Computer Science)

Die Verletzung EU-rechtlich geschützter geografischer Namen – Eine Analyse der Artikel 13 und 14 der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 510/2006 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des TRIPS-Abkommens (The infringement of geographical names protected under EU law – An Analysis of articles 13 and 14 of the regulation (EC) No. 510/2006 with particular reference to the TRIPS agreement), Schriftenreihe zum gewerblichen Rechtsschutz des Max-Planck-Instituts für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht, Bd. 175, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Köln 2011

Chapter Germany (with Till Jaeger), in: Van den Brande/Coughlan/Jaeger (ed.), The International Free and Open Source Law Book, Open Source Press, Munich, Germany 2011

Perspectives pour une harmonisation européenne du droit d’auteur du point de vue franco-allemand – Compte rendu du colloque de clôture des rencontres franco-allemandes sur le droit d'auteur (co-authored with Christophe Geiger, Gerd Hansen, Kristina Markowski, Sylvie Nérisson), in: Hilty/Geiger (ed.): Impulse für eine europäische Harmonisierung des Urheberrechts/Perspectives d’harmonisation du droit d’auteur en Europe, Springer/Litec, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York/Paris 2007, p. 571 ff.

Tim Engelhardt studied German law in Berlin and Munich.

Tim Engelhardt completed his Ph.D. thesis on European intellectual property law in 2010 at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich, where he was awarded a summa cum laude and received the Issekutz Prize for outstanding research in the field of economic law.  For this work, he was a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich, and the Swiss Institute for Comparative Law, Lausanne.

He also holds an LL.M. (2008) from Columbia Law School, New York, where he was the Robert J. Burton Fellow in copyright law.  After passing the New York Bar Exam, he worked in Washington DC as a consultant on copyright law for an organization representing artists and performers in the TV, radio and recording business.

Prior to his time in the US, Tim Engelhardt worked as an attorney in the IP/IT department of an international law firm in Munich.  He is admitted to the bars of Berlin and New York in Berlin.

English, French