Eike Ullmann

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Eike Ullmann (born October 17, 1941 in Dudweiler ) is a German legal scholar . He was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1988 to 2006 , including presiding judge since 1998.

Life

Childhood, education and early years of work

Ullmann is the son of the later government director Heinz Ullmann and his wife Marianne, née Nieser. He attended primary schools in Waldsee and Neustadt an der Weinstraße and then the Görres-Gymnasium in Koblenz , where he passed his Abitur in March 1960. After studying law at the Universities of Heidelberg , Vienna and Saarbrücken , he passed his first state examination in Heidelberg in autumn 1964. He then completed his legal clerkship in the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court from 1965 to 1968 . During this time he was also employed as a research assistant at the chair of Othmar Jauernig at the University of Heidelberg.

Following his second exam in the autumn of 1968, he initially continued his academic career as Jauernig's research assistant. In 1969 he did his doctorate on "Securing future claims through arrest and injunction". A year later he entered the higher judicial service in Baden-Württemberg and was employed as a court assessor at the Mannheim district court . Here he was assigned to the 7th civil chamber, which was responsible for commercial legal protection . Ullmann was to remain connected to this area of ​​law in his further professional life.

From the regional court to the federal court

In 1972 he was appointed judge at the Mannheim Regional Court. From 1974 to 1977 he was seconded as a research assistant to the Xth Civil Senate of the Federal Court of Justice , which was concerned with patent law. From 1977 to 1988 he sat in the 6th civil senate of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court , where he dealt with intellectual property law and competition law. In the 80s he also took part in several programs in the series The Court Day, which was broadcast by SWR .

In 1988 he was elected judge at the Federal Court of Justice and assigned to the First Civil Senate . In 1998 he took over the chairmanship of the VII Civil Senate , which is responsible for private building law and architectural law. Under his chairmanship, the ruling on the verifiability of the final invoice from the architect and the building contractor was issued. In 2002 he returned to the First Civil Senate , to which he was a member until he retired in 2006.

other activities

In addition to judicial work, Ullmann was active in a variety of functions. From 1989 he represented the Federal Court of Justice at juris GmbH , of whose advisory board he was elected chairman in 2001. From March 1992 he taught as an honorary professor at the University of Mannheim . On behalf of the federal government, he repeatedly traveled to the People's Republic of China to help establish the patent system there (first in 1987). Various assignments for the IRZ Foundation took him to Estonia , Latvia , Poland and Hungary , where he made a contribution to industrial property protection and European Community law.

Ullmann and Rudolf Nirk published revisions in 1999 and 2007 of a textbook founded by Karl Bruchhausen on the patent , utility model and plant variety protection law . He is the editor of a practical commentary on the UWG , the third edition of which appeared in 2013 and is also accessible online. Since the 7th edition he has been commenting on central regulations of the Patent and Utility Model Act in the Benkard.

He is married and has three children.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Ahrens (Ed.): Festschrift for Eike Ullmann. Juris GmbH, Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 3-938756-10-1 , pp. VII-XI.
  • Eike Ullmann: Securing future claims through arrest and injunction. Dissertation, Heidelberg 1970, self-written curriculum vitae on p. 81.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BGHZ 140, 365.
  2. ^ Rudolf Nirk, Eike Ullmann: Patent, utility model and plant variety protection law. CF Müller Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8114-8699-3 / Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 3-8114-3368-7 .
  3. ↑ Eike Ullmann (Ed.): Juris practice commentary UWG. Law against Unfair Competition. juris, Saarbrücken 2013, ISBN 978-3-86330-023-4 .
  4. ^ Claus Dietrich Asendorf (among others) (editor): Benkard. Patent Act, Utility Model Act. Beck Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53954-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Eike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dudweiler