Boesling IP

Firm overview:

Hamburg two-lawyer firm, Boesling IP, “a great boutique, I like them”, attracts favourable reports from fellow practitioners. “I have to mention Boesling IP, we had them recently on the other side of a litigation and they are very professional, very collegial. They are a small team, only two lawyers but they do everything for a major German company whether its designs, trademarks.” The firm has a reputation of eschewing the conflicts that might limit larger firms and a willingness to go after the biggest names on litigation matters. “So they will take on Walt Disney, or whoever.”

Boesling IP advises on all aspects of trademark, design, unfair competition and copyright law from prior rights clearances to licensing, regulatory compliance and transactions, project management and complex litigation. Their work includes enforcement of intellectual property rights in national and crossborder litigation as well as the development and implementation of strategies against product piracy and parallel imports.

Team overview:

Thies Boesling co-founded Boesling IP after varied experience at McDermott Will & Emery, Lorez Siedler Gossel and Harte Bavendamm. That experience appears to be valued by peers. “I love to chat with him, he is a very good lawyer.” Boesling has a track-record of litigating numerous high-profile cases before the German and EU courts. His experience covers all aspects of enforcing intellectual property rights (including well-known trademarks) in national and cross-border litigation, developing and implementing strategies against counterfeiting and parallel imports, managing private investigations against intellectual property infringement, intellectual property portfolio management (including trademark clearance, filing, opposition and cancellation proceedings) as well as drafting and negotiating IP licensing and transfer agreements.

Inga George ,“a very good lawyer” according to peers, covers all aspects of trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law, in particular national and cross-border litigation, developing and implementing worldwide trademark and design protection strategies, portfolio management (including trademark clearance, filing, opposition and cancellation proceedings) as well as the negotiation of all kinds of contracts related to IP rights, such as IP licensing and transfer agreements.

Key matters:

• Boesling IP represented Hummel HoldingsA/S of Denmark in defending a EUIPO Boards of Appeal cancellation hearing brought by Barry's Bootcamp Holdings, LLC of the United States, represented by NOERR Alicante.
• The applicant applied to revoke Hummel’s figurative EUTM mark R 1424/2022-2, DEVICE OF TWO CHEVRONS POINTING TO THE RIGHT designated in 2005 for classes 3 (bleaching preparations etc), 18 (leather goods etc) and 25 (clothing, footwear, headgear; sports clothing etc) on the basis of non-genuine use for five years.
• The Boards of Appeal concluded “the evidence as a whole shows use for the registered goods that fall within the scope of the appeal.” The appeal was dismissed and costs of EUR 550 were charged to the applicant.

Clients:

4a engineering,  AlfaDocs, Florian Boysen, Goethe-Institut, HUMMEL HOLDING, King Research, nili cosmetic solutions, OMNIA HOLDINGS, Serana Europe