Tankred Thiem
Tankred Thiem
- Partner
Tankred Thiem is partner of LGV Avvocati, where he assists foreign and Italian clients on intellectual property and Italian-German related matters. Admitted to the bars of both countries, he has extensive experience in conducting parallel proceedings, the enforcement of exclusive rights and has developed brand-building and anti-counterfeiting strategies, including long-term guidance on brand-building, reputation management, trademark registration, opposition proceedings, court proceedings, customs surveillance programs and assistance at trade shows in Italy and abroad. He specialises in cross-border litigation in patent, trademark and design proceedings, in particular in Germany, Austria and Italy and is admitted as UPC representative. He also advises on unfair competition, international commercial contracts and licences, privacy, labelling and compliance, working with multinational rights-holders in fashion, chemistry, automotive and software/online tools.
Expertise
- Research Fellow in European patent litigation (UPC Agreement and Rules of Procedure), FernUniversität Hagen, Germany (2011–2013)
- Law degree, Konstanz University, Germany (2004)
- Erasmus scholarship, University of Bologna (IT), 2000
- Admitted to the German Bar (2006)
- Admitted to the Italian Bar (2010)
- German (native),
- Italian (excellent – reading, writing, spoken),
- English (excellent – reading, writing, spoken).
- Member of the administrative board, Deutscher Anwaltverein Italien (Italian association of German lawyers), since 2008
- Editorial Board Member, European Patent Litigation in Practice, Wolters Kluwer
- Member of EPLAW, AIPPI, INTA, GRUR, VPP, and DIJV
- Ranked in Chambers Global (Foreign Expert), IP Stars, Leaders League, Lexology Index, IAM Patent 1000, WTR
- Iter della direttiva 2019/790 e sua implementazione in Europa e in Italia in Il diritto d’autore nel mercato unico digitale. Direttiva (UE) 2019/790 e d.lgs. n. 177/2021 di recepimento, Giappichelli, Turin, 2022
- Country Report Italy, in Community Design Regulation: A Commentary, C.H. Beck Hart Nomos, edited by G. Hasselblatt, 2nd edition, 2018
- Country Report Italy, in Community Trade Mark Regulation: A Commentary, C.H. Beck Hart Nomos, edited by G. Hasselblatt, 2nd edition, 2018
- Art. 21 Exhaustion, in Community Trade Mark Regulation: A Commentary, C.H. Beck Hart Nomos, edited by G. Hasselblatt, 2nd edition, 2018
- Regular Contributor to European Patent Litigation in Practice, Wolters Kluwer