Friedrich-Karl Beier

Friedrich-Karl Beier (born April 9, 1926 in Berlin; † November 13, 1997 ) was a German law teacher. Together with Gerhard Schricker, he was the director of the Max Planck Institute he helped set up for foreign and international patent, copyright and competition law in Munich.

Life

Beier began his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated from the Free University there. He completed his legal traineeship at the Superior Court in Berlin. In 1954 he was brought to Munich by Eduard Reimer and there to the Institute for Foreign and International Patents, Trademarks and Copyright at the university. In 1960 he received his doctorate under the supervision of Eugen Ulmer with a thesis on fundamental issues of French trademark law. In 1965 he completed his habilitation on the territoriality of trademark law. At the law faculty of the Munich University he worked successively as a private lecturer, adjunct professor and full professor. From 1971 he was director of the Max Planck Institute, founded in 1965 (now: Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property , Competition and Tax Law), of which he was co-manager in 1994. In 1994 he retired. He passed away in 1997.

Beier was co-editor of various renowned specialist magazines such as GRUR, GRUR Int. And IIC He was honorary doctor in Lyon, Poznan and Uppsala. He was married to Judith Beier.

bibliography

• Matthias Kornmüller: Publications by Prof. Dr. Dr. hc mult. Friedrich-Karl Beier , in: Current challenges of intellectual property, celebration of friends and employees for Friedrich-Karl Beier on his 70th birthday , ed. by Joseph Straus , Cologne: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-452-23413-4 .

Publications (selection)

Independent works

• The emergence and maintenance of trademark law in France, Diss. Munich 1960
• Basic issues of French trademark law, Carl Heymanns Verlag 1962 (series of publications on commercial legal protection of the Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law of the University of Munich)
• The protection of geographical indications of origin in Germany, 1963, Weinheim: Verlag Chemie
• The protection of scientific research results: zugl. E. Appreciation d. Geneva Treaty on d. international entry scientific Entdeckungen (together with Joseph Straus), 1981, Weinheim: Verlag Chemie
• Trademark treatises: Contribution to recent developments d. Trademark, equipment and Protection of origin 1956 - 1986, 1986, Cologne a. a .: Carl Heymanns Verlag
• Biotechnology and Patent Protection, 1986 (also in German translation)

Essays etc.

• Goals and guiding principles of European trademark law, GRUR Int. 1976, 363
• The need for protection for indications of origin and designations of origin in the common market, GRUR Int. 1977, 1
• Freedom of competition and patent protection, GRUR 1978, 123
• Limits of the theory of exhaustion in trademark law, GRUR Int. 1978, 263
• The importance of the patent system for technical, economic and social progress, GRUR Int. 1979, 227
• Use and business operations - On the trademark legal capacity of holding companies, GRUR 1980, 352
• Equipment protection for colors, GRUR 1980, 600
• The law applicable to international trademark license agreements, GRUR Int. 1981, 299
• Regarding the requirements for the protection of foreign trade names according to Art 2 and 8 of the Paris Convention, GRUR Int. 1982, 362
• Hundred Years of the Paris Association Agreement - Your Role in the Past, Present and Future, GRUR Int. 1983, 339
• Development and current status of competition law in the European Economic Community, GRUR Int. 1984, 61
• On the historical development of the inventiveness requirement, GRUR 1985, 606
• The protection of selective sales relationships against outsiders - The gaplessness in theory and practice, GRUR 1987, 131
• The legal remedies of the patent applicant and his competitors in comparison, GRUR Int. 1989, 1
• Commercial legal protection and free movement of goods in the European internal market and in dealings with third countries, GRUR Int. 1989, 603
• The future of intellectual property in Europe, ZVglRWiss 89, 387 (1990)
• Abuse of a dominant position through the exercise of industrial property rights, Festschrift for Karlheinz Quack on his 65th birthday 1991, 15–32, de Gruyter, Berlin
• Distinctive power and need to keep clear, GRUR Int. 1992, 243
• Intellectual property law, social market economy and European internal market, GRUR 1992, 228
• The design protection of spare parts in the proposals for a European design law, GRUR Int. 1994, 716
• On the admissibility of parallel imports of patented products, GRUR Int. 1996, 1

literature

• Gerhard Schricker : Friedrich-Karl Beier  . In: New legal weekly . tape 51 , no. 8 , 1998, pp. 515 . [Obituary]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary by Gerhard Schricker in GRUR Int. 1997. 947
2. ↑ Laudation by Gerhard Schricker in GRUR Int. 1996, 273

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich-Karl Beier in the catalog of the German National Library