Christian Zierhut

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Leaders in Law endorses Christian Zierhut as our exclusively recommended Brand Protection Law and Trademark Law expert in Germany. If you wish to get in touch with Christian, please use the contact information provided above.

Christian is an IP attorney with over 14 years of experience advising clients on intellectual property issues. Christian is recognised as a Trademark Lawyer & Brand Protection Expert providing a full trademark, design right, copyright and patent advisory services to a broad range of businesses globally.

Christian has a diverse intellectual property practice focused on trade mark prosecution and trademark right infringement litigation, with special emphasis on clients in the fashion, sport and entertainment and car parts sectors. He is also an expert in complex unfair competition and copyright matters.

Not only fashion and luxury brands trust his services: Also professional sportsmen and sport agencies trust his advice in trademark and copyright matters.  Christian did for example the contract drafting in connection with several world champion boxing fighters for their sponsors and TV broadcast events. He won several crucial trials for my clients amongst others a trademark infringement case for Germany’s Number 1 luxus & lifestyle magazine publisher against Axel Springer (Europe’s leading digital publisher).

PRACTICE AREAS:

Christian advises his clients on global anti-counterfeiting strategies, parallel import, including national and European-wide customs filings as well as related cross-border litigation. He acts for several billion dollar fashion labels for many years in relation to all its counterfeit and IP matters.

CLIENTS:

Christian’s clients includes media companies, athlets, race drivers, fashion designers and apparel companies; He consults his clients in all questions concerning trade marks, including the development of trade mark strategies, the supervision and administration of trade mark portfolios, the drafting and negotiation of licence agreements and the extrajudicial and judicial enforcement of trade mark rights. He acted for many years on behalf of Christian Audigier’s worldwide clothing and merchandise company, including all its European trade mark and licence matters. Clients like Valentino Rossi, Techart Porsche, among others the fashion brand Earnest Sewn and the World Boxing Association rely on me – for over 10 years now.