Maximilian Haedicke

Maximilian Haedicke (* 1967 ) is a German legal scholar . Since April 2005 he has held a chair at the Institute for Business Law, Labor and Social Law, Department IV: Intellectual Property Law at the University of Freiburg .

Life

Haedicke studied in Munich and Geneva. In 1994 he passed his first state examination in law in Munich. In Washington, DC, he earned an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University and passed the bar exam in 1995. As a scholarship holder of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich, he did his doctorate in 1995 under Gerhard Schricker on the subject of " Copyright and the trade policy of the United States of America".

After his legal clerkship (2nd state examination, Berlin 1998) he was a research assistant at the Institute for Intellectual Property and Copyright at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for foreign and international patents and copyright and competition law. There he headed the USA department of the institute. During this time he wrote his habilitation thesis, supervised by Professor Gerhard Schricker , on the subject of “Legal Purchase and Liability for Legal Defects - Claims, Intellectual Property Rights and 'Other Items' as Objects of Sale and the Civil Code”. In the summer semester of 2001 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received the venia legendi for the subjects of civil law , industrial property rights , copyright and business law .

He then worked, specializing in intellectual property law , competition law and information technology law, in a large law firm and in a law firm specializing in patent infringement proceedings .

In the 2003/2004 winter semester, he began to act as a substitute professor at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg. In April 2005 he was appointed professor. In 2006 he turned down an offer at the University of Mannheim . Between 2008 and 2010, Haedicke was Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg. In 2011 he turned down an offer at the University of Bayreuth. From June 2011 to March 2017, Haedicke was a judge of the second civil senate of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, which specializes in patent law .

Monographs

• Patent law, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne / Munich, 3rd edition 2015.
• Patents and pirates, CH Beck, Munich, 2011.
• Purchase of rights and liability for defects of title - claims, intellectual property rights and other items as purchase objects and the new law of obligations, Mohr / Siebeck, Tübingen 2003.
• Copyright and the trade policy of the United States of America, CH Beck, Munich 1997.

Editorial activity

• Patent Law - A Handbook (with H. Timmann), CH Beck / Hart / Nomos, Munich / Oxford / Baden-Baden, 2014.
• Handbook of Patent Law (with H. Timmann), CH Beck, Munich, 2012.
• Heymann's writings on patent law (with H. Zech), Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne.
• Perspectives on intellectual property and competition law - Festschrift for Gerhard Schricker on his 70th birthday, CH Beck, Munich 2005.
• Co-editor of the publications on German, European and international law on intellectual property and competition.

Web links

• Website of the chair