Dr. Katharina Schmid, born 1974

Since 2007    Attorney at law, in cooperation with Höhne, In der Maur & Partner, attorneys at law

2005 - 2007   Attorney at law at Lovells, Alicante (Spanien)

2005             Admitted to the Austrian Bar

2003 - 2004   Associate at Fiebinger, Polak, Leon & Partner, attorneys at law, Vienna

2000 - 2003   Associate at Griss & Partner, attorneys at law, Graz

Languages:

German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), French (good understanding)

Publications:

  • (as Katharina Hiti) Refusal to license by the Owners of Intellectual Property Rights in Austrian and EU Competition Law - also an Examination of the 'Essential Facilities'-doctrine", Doctoral Thesis, Graz 2001. Awarded with the Josef-Krainer-Förderungspreis 2002: http://www.steirisches-gedenkwerk.at/preistr/2002.htm.

  • (as Katharina Hiti) "Third Party Effects of Trademark and Patent Licences", Österreichische Blätter für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (ÖBl) 2003, 4

  • "Trap: Unjustified Refusal to Accept an Offer to Conclude an Enforceable Default Settlement", ÖBl 2004, 203

  • Annotation to Austrian Supreme Court decision OGH 15.10.2002, 4 Ob 209/02t – Brühl, ÖBl, 2003/23, 87 (Hiti),

  • Annotation to Austrian Supreme Court decision OGH 14.2.2006, 4 Ob 177/05s – Baustellenwerbung II, ÖBl 2007/31, 137 (140) (Community design law)

  • Co-Author of Wiebe/Kodek (Hrsg), Legal Commentary on the Austrian Unfair Competition Law Act. Neuer UWG Kommentar.pdf Neuer UWG Kommentar

  • The Name of a Trade Establishment as Business Identifier (German title  "Die Etablissementbezeichnung als Unternehmenskennzeichen"), ipCompetence Vol. 3 (2010) 4.

Lecturing:

  • Speaker at the 133rd Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA - www.inta.org) in San Francisco, USA, on 17 May 2011: "Regional Update OHIM/EU: What's New in the World of Trademarks and Domains?"

  • Lector at the higher techical college FH Joanneum in Kapfenberg / Styria in the Master Program Industrial Management (part time), course: Commercial Law 2, subject: Intellectual Property and Contracts (winter terms 2009/2010, 2010/2011) . Website of the advanced technical college FH Joanneum.

  • Lectures at ARS Academy for Law and Taxes, Vienna: "Update in International Trade Mark Protection" (2008, 2009).

  • Guest lectures at FH Joanneum Graz, master program: International Management (2004 und 2007): „Trade Mark protection in business practice“.