Matthias Leistner

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Matthias Leistner (* 1974 ) is a German legal scholar . From 2007 to 2016 he held the chair for civil law , intellectual property law and competition law and director of the Institute for Commercial and Economic Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since October 2016 he has held the chair for civil law and intellectual property law, with information law and IT law (GRUR chair) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

After studying at the universities of Berlin and Brussels was in 1999 promotion to Dr. iur. with Gerhard Schricker at what is now the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. From 2003 to 2004 Matthias Leistner studied at Trinity Hall College of the University of Cambridge , where he was awarded a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 2004. After passing the second state examination in law, Matthias Leistner was initially head of the Commonwealth Department at the Max Planck Institute. As a scholarship holder of the Bavarian Habilitation Award, Matthias Leistner completed his habilitation in 2006 as a student of Josef Drexl at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law , German and European business law , industrial property rights and copyright , international private law and comparative law . Matthias Leistner has been a member of the faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) since 2003 and of the German School of Law in Warsaw since 2009. In 2009 he accepted an honorary professorship at Xiamen University , China, and one year later taught as visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. In November 2015, Leistner represented GRUR as an expert at the hearing before the Federal Constitutional Court in the "Metal on Metal" case. In December 2015, he presented his model for reforming copyright exploitation rights and regulating Internet platforms at the Berlin Copyright Conference. Matthias Leistner's research focuses on the areas of copyright law , new media law, industrial property rights and fair trading law . He is a member of the GRUR specialist committee for copyright and publishing law, the board of the German national group of ALAI (Association littéraire et artistique internationale) and other professional associations.

Works

Editorships (selection)

  • Co-editor of the journal for intellectual property (ZGE), Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen.
  • Co-editor of the Schricker / Loewenheim commentary on copyright from the 5th edition (2017), CH Beck, Munich.
  • Co-editor, major commentary on the law against unfair competition with ancillary laws, 2nd revised and expanded edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013.
  • European Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010.

Monographs

  • Intellectual Property Overlaps: A European Perspective (comparative study on European, German, English and French law together with Estelle Derclaye), Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2011.
  • Consolidation and development perspective of European copyright law , ed. from the Center for European Business Law, Bonn 2008.
  • Correct contract and fair competition - a basic study with special consideration of the European perspective , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007.
  • The legal protection of the database manufacturer in German and European law , CH Beck, Munich 2000.

Dependent publications (selection)

  • The European concept of work in copyright law, Journal for Intellectual Property (ZGE) 2013, pp. 4–45.
  • Basics and perspectives of liability for copyright infringement on the Internet, Journal for Copyright and Media Law (ZUM) 2012, pp. 722–740.
  • The Murphy judgment of the ECJ: Much Ado About Nothing or Beginning of the End of the Territorial Principle in Copyright Law ?, Juristenteitung (JZ) 2011, pp. 1140–1148.
  • Leistner / Kleinemenke, The Impact of Institutional Design on the Development of Patent Law - Patentability of Computer Programs and Business Methods in Europe and the United States of America as a Topical Example, ZGE 2010, pp. 273-313.
  • Liability for interference and indirect infringement of property rights, GRUR supplement to issue 1/2010, 32 pages.

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SURNAME Leistner, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner, LL.M. (Cambridge): Presentation at the Berlin Future Conference on Copyright. Copyright initiative, accessed on October 4, 2016 (German).