
TWAINSCORE Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB is a highly specialised boutique law firm. We advise and represent our clients exclusively in the areas of Labour law and IP/IT/media law. We have acquired many years of practical experience in these legal areas and a proven academic background, as evidenced by our numerous specialists’ publications and lectures at universities.
The focus of our work is guided by our clients’ interests.
Team
We work on complex legal problems with the aim of achieving the best but also the most cost-effective solutions. To this end, we work quickly, efficiently and with a high degree of creativity. We strive towards the enforcement of our clients’ interests both in and out of court and in matters before the public authorities.
Our clients include both medium-sized businesses and multinational companies operating in various sectors. In addition, we advise and represent senior managers and individuals on all relevant legal issues in the areas of our specialisation. In cases that involve other legal areas or cross-border legal matters, we rely on a well-established network of specialist colleagues.
If you have an issue relating to one of our areas of specialisation, you can contact us anytime.
Dr. Martin Wintermeier
Rechtsanwalt, specialist lawyer in intellectual property law
Contact:
Mail | 089 4 522 033 20
Dr Martin Wintermeier advises on all aspects of intellectual property law and on media and IT law. Dr Wintermeier’s work focuses, among other, on complex litigation disputes, e.g. patent or trademark infringement, unfair competition (German Unfair Competition Act), and unlawful disclosure of trade secrets. In these matters, Dr Wintermeier regularly works in close cooperation with larger teams in different legal disciplines and jurisdictions. In addition, Dr Wintermeier advises on the development of international trademark portfolios. Together with his partner, Mr Schmulenson, he advises and represents his clients on aspects of IP law that intersect with labour law, particularly on issues relating to corporate liability, competition, trade secrets and the law relating to employees’ inventions. He advises his clients in German and English.
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Dr Wintermeier studied law in Passau, Munich and Augsburg (Dr. iur.). After completing his studies, he practised, among others, in the patent litigation team of one of the leading German law firms and most recently at a well-known IP boutique firm based in Munich,
Dr Wintermeier gained a wealth of experience in foreign jurisdictions in his role at an American corporate law firm in Miami and in his role at the German Society for International Development’s (GIZ) Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme in Beijing.
After completing his studies, Dr Wintermeier worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich (Department of Corporate and Intellectual Property Law) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Department of Civil Law and Medical Law).
In addition to his doctoral thesis on a patent law topic, Dr Wintermeier has written numerous specialist publications on civil procedure law, unfair competition and patent law.
Igor Schmulenson
Rechtsanwalt, specialist lawyer in labour law
Contact:
Mail | 089 4 522 033 20
Igor Schmulenson advises companies, senior managers and company bodies on all aspects of individual and collective employment law and service contract law. Mr Schmulenson has many years’ experience in enforcing his clients’ rights in these legal areas, both in and out of court. Moreover, Mr Schmulenson has proven expertise in the areas of international secondment, transfer of employees and business immigration. Together with his partner, Dr Wintermeier, he advises and represents his clients on aspects of labour law that intersect with intellectual property law, particularly on issues relating to corporate liability, competition law, the provisions of the German Trade Secrets Act and the law relating to employees’ inventions. Mr Schmulenson advises his clients in German, English and Russian.
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Mr Schmulenson began his legal career at a well-known national law firm. Afterwards, he worked for a Munich-based employment law boutique for more than five years. Previously, Mr Schmulenson had worked in the labour law team of the legal department at a major insurance company in Munich.
Mr Schmulenson studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His legal training at the Oberlandesgericht in Munich focused on labour law. Before pursuing his career as a lawyer, Mr Schmulenson worked for various university departments of civil and public law.
In addition to his role as a lawyer, Mr Schmulenson has been a visiting lecturer in labour law at Hochschule Fresenius for several years.
Professor Dr Ronny Hauck
external scientific advisor*
Contact:
Mail | 089 4 522 033 20
Professor Dr Ronny Hauck has held a professorship at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 2016 at the chair for civil law, intellectual property law and copyright law, private international law and comparative law.
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He was invited by the Stetson University School of Law (2007-2008) and the George Washington University Law School (2012-2013) to serve as a visiting scholar. He was also a guest lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law in Peking in 2018. Since 2018, Professor Hauck is a guest lecturer at the International Laboratory on Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law/National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
Professor Hauck teaches courses in patent law, copyright, trade secrets law, and licensing law. His research focuses on IP law, licensing and insolvency law and antitrust; he has written several books, book contributions, and law journal articles in these areas.
*No lawyer or partner at TWAINSCORE
Legal services
Thorough legal advice on labour law
Litigation
Collective employment law
Business immigration
Termination of employment contracts
Social security law
Contract drafting
Use of external staff
Restructuring
International employee secondments
Patent law
Trademark law
We also advise you in developing the right registration strategy for your national or international trademark portfolio. Where conflicts involve third countries, we rely on our well-established network of experienced colleagues in nearly all countries in the world.
Design law
Unfair competition (UWG)
Defamation
Copyright and media law
IT law
Contract law
Employees’ inventions law
Protection of (employee) data
We can assist you in designing and implementing internal processes that ensure that data is processed in accordance with the law, with a specific focus on employee data.
Moreover, we can represent you in disputes before data protection agencies and enforce your rights in court if necessary.
Protection of trade secrets
In addition, we can rely on our experience of representing clients in numerous proceedings relating to the protection of trade secrets. We represent you before employment and civil courts to enforce all claims relating to the unlawful disclosure of trade secrets, in particular in claims for injunction, disclosure and damages. When the unlawful disclosure of trade secrets is suspected, we can conduct inspection proceedings if possible, to collect evidence for our clients. Moreover, we advise on the criminal aspects of the protection of trade secrets when enforcing our clients’ rights.
Non-competition covenants
We also represent our clients in litigation disputes, both to enforce non-competition covenants and to challenge invalid non-competition covenants.
IP compliance
The prerequisites for liability and measures to avoid liability must be carefully considered. Depending on the intellectual property right affected, these are treated differently by the civil division of the Bundesgerichtshofs.
In addition to civil law aspects, we also advise on criminal liability for infringement of intellectual property rights. Our advice is aimed at both companies and criminal defence lawyers who request intellectual property expertise in ongoing proceedings. It should be noted that the essential prerequisites for criminal liability correspond to those for civil liability. Calling in civil law expertise can add significant value in this context.
Do you need help in our specialist areas?
We look forward to hearing from you.
Adress
St.-Anna-Str. 11
80538 Munich
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