Arne Führer

Arne has been a judge since 2003, since 2004 in intellectual property, inter alia patent, and unfair commercial practices matters. He has worked both at the Regional and Local Courts of Hamburg and - on secondment - at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). In this capacity he has acquired a wealth of expertise in the resolution of intellectual property disputes, both on a national and on a European – i.e., inter alia, multicultural and multilingual – level. As a Presiding Regional Court Judge, Arne is currently on secondment as Head of the Legal Department of Hamburg's State Ministry of Justice and for Consumer Protection. Apart from his judicial work as a German and European decision-taker in the resolution of intellectual property disputes, he is and has been the Chairperson and member of various working and expert groups of the European Commission and of the EUIPO, e. g. as Chairperson of the Directorate-General Research & Innovation's Expert Group on Intellectual Property Valuation. Arne is a regular speaker at international conferences and symposiums on matters of intellectual property law and practice.