Advice and litigation in trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition matters, and domain names, licensing and distribution matters.

Stefan Abel’s clients include an international French manufacturer of leather goods and accessories in a series of counterfeit and piracy cases and a US manufacturer of medical devices in a series of parallel import cases in a number of European countries. He also advises a popular television station and several film production companies in the fields of trademark and unfair competition law as well as in copyright matters.

Stefan Abel serves as a panellist in domain name arbitration proceedings at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. He also lectures at the University of Strasbourg's Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) and regularly publishes articles relating to his fields of practice (see publications).

Stefan Abel was nominated for the 2008 International IP Award by IP publisher informa and is individually recommended in JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2009/2010 - "very good and reasoned" (peer quote). 

1993–1995	Research assistant at the Chair for German Law, Conflict of Laws and Comparative Law, Lausanne; research activities in the field of conflict of laws and comparative law at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Lausanne
1995–1998	Trainee at Graf von Westphalen, Fritze & Modest and other law firms
1998–2002	Associate at law firm Noerr Stiefenhofer Lutz, Intellectual Property department, Munich; private practice
Since 2002	Attorney-at-law at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Munich
	Panellist of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva
Since 2005	Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, France, Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI)
Since 2006	Partner of the firm

1988–1993	Studied Law at the universities of Heidelberg and Konstanz, Germany
1990–1991	Research assistant at the Chair of Civil Law, Law of Economics and Law of International Trade Relations, University of Konstanz, Germany
1993	First State Examination (degree-level qualification) in Konstanz
1996	Awarded “Dr. iur.” (PhD) degree in Law, University of Konstanz
1998	Second State Examination (bar admission exam) at Hamburg Higher Regional Court

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