The role of the Advisory Board is to give feedback on strategic issues and on new product development opportunities.
Current members of the Advisory Board:
The biographies are only available in English.
Gerhard Bauer
Daimler
Gerhard R. Bauer, vice president of the International Trademark Association (INTA), is Chief Trademark Counsel of Daimler AG.
Mr. Bauer graduated in 1987 from Stuttgart University with a degree in Electrical Engineering, then joined the Patent Department of the then Mercedes-Benz AG. In 1992, he passed his Patent Attorney exam and became head of the trademark department and central IP-functions of Mercedes-Benz.
In 1996 he took responsibility in the sector for the complete Daimler-Benz group and in 1998 became Chief Trademark Counsel for DaimlerChrysler AG.
Mr. Bauer is a frequent speaker worldwide for IP matters and especially trademark matters for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and various other organizations. He has given many presentations in Asian countries, particularly China.
He was also named one of the 50 most influential persons in the IP world by Managing Intellectual Property magazine in 2005 and again in 2006.
Michael Edenborough QC
Serle Court
Michael Edenborough QC is a barrister. His practice principally involves appellate advocacy and advice concerning the validity of registered intellectual property rights such as patents, trade marks and designs. He also deals with other issues such as infringement, subsistence and ownership of those registered rights and the related unregistered IPRs such as copyright, moral rights, design right and passing-off.
He has acted for the Comptroller-General of Patents, the Registrar of Trade Marks and the UK Government before the Court of Justice of the European Union, the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court (Chancery Division, Patents Court and Administrative Division) on, inter alia, appeals from, and Judicial Reviews of, the Patent Office and the Registry. He has appeared regularly before the General Court of European Union (formerly the Court of First Instance), Luxembourg on appeals from the European Trade Marks and Designs Office (OHIM), and on Article 267 TFEU references and appeals to the Court of Justice; and acted before both the legal and technical Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
Marc Frisanco
Richemont
After obtaining an advanced degree in intellectual property from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, Marc Frisanco spent four years in private practice before joining Cartier as head of intellectual property in 1982. He is currently Deputy Chief Intellectual Property Counsel of Richemont, a luxury goods company which owns seventeen famous brands including Cartier, Montblanc, Van Cleef & Arpels and Vacheron Constantin.
Marc has been involved with intellectual property protection and anticounterfeiting, in particular at a global level, for more than 25 years.
He is a frequent guest lecturer at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg and the Institut Suprieur de Marketing de Luxe in Paris.
Charles Gielen
Nauta Dutilh
Charles Gielen concentrates on patent and trademark litigation. He is a part-time professor in IP law at Groningen University and has authored various IP handbooks. Charles is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AIPPI) and acts as Chairman of the Special Committee on Biotechnology. He is the past President of the Dutch group of AIPPI; recently he has been appointed Member of honour of this association. Furthermore he is a member of the standing advisory committee to the Dutch Government on trademark and design law.
In 2006, Professor Charles Gielen received the INTA President Award, one of the highest honours given to intellectual property practitioners.
Charles graduated from Tilburg University in 1971 and obtained his doctorate degree at Utrecht University in 1991.
Paul Lange
Siebeke Lange Wilbert
Prof. Dr. Paul Lange is an attorney-at-law with Siebeke Lange Wilbert specialising in national and international law on trade marks and sign protection since 1984. In 2000 he was appointed honorary professor of industrial property law. He principally advises clients on issues of trademark law, international safeguarding of corporate goodwill, strategic optimisation of corporate brand launches as well as conducting litigation. He is author of the standard German work on the law of trade marks and sign protection entitled "Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht". He is also the editor and co-author of "Internationales Handbuch des Marken- und Kennzeichenrechts". This also appeared in the English language under the title "International Trade Mark and Sign Protection: A handbook".
Alexander von Mühlendahl
Bardehle Pagenberg
Alexander von Mühlendahl began his career at the Munich Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, where he was from 1966 to 1979 (including three years at Northwestern University School of Law). From 1970 he headed the Institute's U.S. Department.
In 1979 Alexander von Mühlendahl joined the German Federal Ministry of Justice. From 1985 until 1994, he was the head of the division for trade mark and unfair competition law. Among the legislation for which he was responsible were amendments to the German Unfair Competition Act, the IP legislation following the unification of Germany in 1990 (the 'Erstreckungsgesetz' of 1992) and the new German Trade Mark Act of 1995. Throughout this period he represented the German government in the negotiations in Brussels on the European trade mark law, as well as in WIPO matters.
In 1994 Alexander von Mühlendahl was appointed as Vice-President of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM), the European Union's trade marks and designs office established in Alicante, Spain. The appointment was renewed in 1999 and 2004 and ended in 2005 when he reached retirement age. His primary responsibilities included all legal matters, such as examination, opposition, cancellation, and also the representation of OHIM in cases before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance.
In November 2005 Alexander v. Mühlendahl joined the Bardehle Pagenberg firm where he focusses on trade mark and design matters, based in Munich and in Alicante.
Alexander von Mühlendahl is Honorary Member of ECTA, the European Communities Trademark Association and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Trademark Association.
Evelyne Roux
Regimbeau
Evelyne ROUX, Partner at Regimbeau, Head of the Legal Department, is qualified both as a lawyer and as a patent attorney, with expertise in international litigations and comprehensive knowledge of world asset portfolios.
She has developed a global approach in all creative or innovative sectors she is involved in. She is thus particularly well-placed to advise businesses and public organizations making use of intellectual property tools not only to defend their own interests, but also to conquer new markets. She has more than 20 years of experience as Trademark and Patent Attorney.
Evelyne ROUX is highly involved in the training of young professionals. She is a Lecturer at CEIPI and at Institut d'Etudes Politiques and a Member of the Board for examination for qualification of the French Trademark Attorneys.
She is Member of the AIPPI and of the Chamber of Discipline of the CNCPI, as well as in the main international organizations INTA and ECTA.
