Hoyng Rokh Monegier
Firm overview:
Hoyng Rokh Monegier is an IP-focused firm with more than one hundred intellectual property professionals across Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. In Germany, the firm has offices in Dusseldorf, Mannheim and Munich. Hoyng Rokh Mongier in Düsseldorff is “an excellent firm with a strong team with excellent trademark experience” according to an international referral lawyer.
Team overview:
Hoyng Rokh Monegier is enthusiastically recommended in trademarks matters by referral contacts. Thomas Schmitz advises German and international clients in trademarks and designs, unfair competition and copyright. He is an experienced litigator with a focus on plagiarism and trademark infringement. He also advises on the development of his clients’ advertising and marketing strategies as well as product development. He drafts and negotiates licences and cooperation agreements and advises on IP-intensive transactions.
Christina Tenbrock has extensive litigation experience in national and crossborder infringement proceedings and regularly conducts opposition and nullity proceedings before the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) as well as the European Union Intellectual Property Office. She also advises clients on marketing campaigns, product launches, on border seizure proceedings and on various contractual issues.
Mathis Breuer represents national and international clients in all areas of trademarks, unfair competition including drug advertising law, design and copyright. Breuer is experienced in litigation experience and has represented consumer goods, cosmetics, life science and electronics clients in main and preliminary proceedings at all relevant German IP courts.
Key matters:
- Hoyng Rokh Monegier represented confectionery manufacturer Trees GmbH in a partially successful challenge to the European Union trademark SUPER BOWL owned by NFL Properties Europe GmbH.
- Hoyng Rokh Monegier partner Thomas Schmitz has been representing a leading global pharmaceutical originator in an extensive series of trademark, unfair competition and regulatory litigation cases since 2014.
- Hoyng Rokh Monegier partners Thomas H. Schmitz, Christina Tenbrock and Ivan Dimitrov advise Adlon Brand GmbH & Co. KG. on the management of its trademark portfolio. The team provides representation in numerous national and European opposition proceedings against applicants of younger collision trademarks as well as in a long-standing and complex dispute with the Kempinski Group.
Clients:
Baxalta, Bübchen Skincare, Katjes Fassi, HUTCHMED Group Enterprises, Dr. Kurt Wolff, OFO Tech Sdn Bhd, Samsung Electronics, Olav, Steinel, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Treets GmbH, trivago
