Ansgar Ohly
Ansgar Ohly (born December 26, 1965 in Hilden ) is a German legal scholar . Since October 2012 he has held the chair for civil law , intellectual property law and competition law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Life
After graduating from the Städtisches Gymnasium Olpe , Ansgar Ohly studied law at the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge ( Trinity Hall ) before receiving his doctorate in 1995 under Friedrich-Karl Beier. He then worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. In 2001 Ansgar Ohly completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich as a student of Gerhard Schricker .
From 2001 to 2012 he held the chair of civil law, German and European commercial law, in particular patent, copyright and competition law at the University of Bayreuth. In November 2003, Ansgar Ohly was one of the representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany at the hearing of the Caroline von Hannover v Germany case before the European Court of Human Rights. Most recently he was the spokesman for the DFG graduate school “Intellectual Property and Public Domain” at the University of Bayreuth. In the winter semester of 2012, he accepted a position at LMU Munich.
In October 2009 he was appointed Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Since 2014 he has also been a visiting senior member of St. Peter's College, Oxford. In 2015 he was named Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple in London.
Ohly's research areas include fundamental questions and the various sub-areas of intellectual property law , fair trading law and personal rights .
Private
Ansgar Ohly is the son of the former mayor of Olpe, Wilma Ohly .
Fonts
- Judges' law and general clause in unfair competition law - a comparison of methods between English and German law, Carl Heymanns , Cologne 1997.
- "Volenti non fit iniuria" - the consent in private law, Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3161477936
- UWG (with Olaf Sosnitza ), 6th edition of the commentary justified by Helmut Köhler and Henning Piper , CH Beck , Munich 2014.
- “Patent trolls” or: the patent law injunction claim subject to proportionality? Current developments in US patent law and their significance for the German and European patent system, in: Industrial property rights and copyright, international part (GRUR Int), 2008, pp. 787–798,
- Intellectual property ?, in: JuristenZeitung (JZ), 2003, pp. 545–554.
- Design protection in the field of tension between registered design, trademark and fair trading law, in: Commercial legal protection and copyright (GRUR), 2007, pp. 731–740.
- Copyright in the digital world - Do we need new regulations on copyright and its enforcement ?, Expert Opinion F for the 70th German Lawyers' Conference , CH Beck , Munich 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ansgar Ohly in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ansgar Ohly at perlentaucher.de
- Website of the chair at the LMU Munich
- Website of Ansgar Ohly, Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford
- Interview with Ohly in Spiegel-Online, on questions of the authorship of scientific publications (February 18, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ohly, Ansgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hilden |