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Dr. Stefan WARBEK

Dr. Stefan Warbek

Admitted to the Vienna bar in 1997

Legal practice: (1994 – 1998): Schönherr (Barfuß Torggler) Attorneys at Law, Vienna / Fiebinger Polak Leon & Partner Attorneys at Law, Vienna

Founded the law offices of WARBEK (1999)

Represents clients before, among others:

  • all Austrian courts and administrative authorities
  • the Austrian Patent Office, Supreme Patent and Trademark Senate
  • the World Intellectual Property Organisation - WIPO (Geneva)
  • the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (Trademarks and Designs) – OHIM (Alicante)
  • the European Patent Office – EPO (Munich)


Various teaching and lecturing activities :

  • Lecturer at the Management Center Innsbruck (patent and licence management, management & law)
  • patent lawyer training (training seminar at the Austrian Bar Association of Patent Lawyers, Vienna)
  • various lectures at universities, the Chamber of Commerce, public law competence centres


Board member of a private foundation

Member of the jury at the Tyrol business plan competition "Adventure X"

Languages: German, English

Areas of specialisation:

  • Competition law and intellectual property law (patent law, trademark law, design law, copyright law)
  • Internet and IT law, software law
  • Technology transfer and licensing
  • Employee invention law (an employee's right to the inventions he made at work)
  • M & A (focusing on intellectual assets in acquisitions and sales of businesses)
  • Corporate law, foundation law
  • Real estate law
  • Distribution law (franchise, sales agents, vertical and horizontal distribution systems)
  • Business law
  • Litigation
  • Contract drafting

Publications:

  • Vorbenützungsrecht an Erfindungen und gemeinschafts­rechtliche Warenverkehrsfreiheit, ÖBl 1996, 263
  • Produkt-Piraten als Delikts-Kavaliere? Österreich und die Plagiate, ecolex 1996, 762
  • Der Schutz von Know-how in Österreich, WIA 1999
  • Telebanking – wer trägt das Risiko?, WIA 1999
  • Neu: Unterschriften im Elektronischen Geschäftsverkehr, WIA 1999
  • Universitäten und Informationstechnologie - Anpassungsbedarf im Urheberrecht, ecolex 2003, 179
  • Markenanmeldungen – Leitfaden für die Praxis, econova 2005
  • Innovationsschutz im Wirtschaftsleben, econova 2005
  • Nein zu Plagiaten. Der Kampf gegen die Imitation von Innovation, WIA 2008
  • Der innovative Mitarbeiter, eco.nova 2009, 38