Brandi mbB

Lawyer
Certified Specialized Attorney in Intellectual Property Law

Location Detmold
T +49 5231 9857 - 0
F +49 5231 9857 - 50
E frank.schembecker@brandi.net
Foreign language: English

About me

Born in 1965
Legal studies at the Universities of Münster and Bonn
First Exam ("1. Staatsexamen") in 1991
Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") at the Dortmund District Court and the Hamm Higher District Court
Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") and bar admission in 1994
Lawyer with the law firm of Oppenhoff & Rädler, Cologne, 1994 - 1997
With our firm since 1997

Violations against competition regulations (warning, pre-liminary injunction, action)
Assessment of advertising material, web pages, online shops, advertising campaigns, contests, General Terms and Conditions etc. with regard to compliance with competition law
Price information
Labeling obligations
Law on the advertising of medicinal products
Protection against imitation
Competition in the public sector

Application of German trade marks, community trade marks and IR trade marks
Trade mark research, management and monitoring
Consulting on trade mark strategies
Contract design (trade mark license and transfer agreements, delimitation agreements)
Conduction of opposition and cancellation proceedings before authorities, the German Federal Patent Office and the General Court
Border seizure processes
Trade mark and designation infringements (warning, preliminary injunction, action)
Trademark infringements abroad
Rights to names, company signs, and titles of works

Patent and utility model infringements (warning, preliminary injunction, action)
Cooperation with patent attorneys
Employee invention law
R&D contracts
Technology transfer agreement
Patent license agreements

Copyright infringements (warning, preliminary injunction, action)
Contract design (copyright license agreements, music publisher agreements, orders for compositions, artist contracts, band take-over agreements, concert agreements etc.)
Related property rights (in particular image rights, databases, sound recordings)

Project-based legal consulting
Contract design and review (standard price agreements, lump sum price agreements, GMP models, general contractor agreements, general take-over agreements, developer agreements)
Review and handling of additions
Preparation of letter templates in accordance with the VOB (German Construction Contract Procedures)
Enforcement of wage claims
Enforcement of/defense against warranty claims
Risk estimates and assessments including recommended actions
Support during extra-judicial disputes and negotiations
Conduction of proceedings

Contract design and review (architect contracts, engineer contracts, general planning contracts, project control agreements)
Clarification of the scope of services owed by the architect or engineer
Consulting during the preparation of the final invoice for fees
Enforcement of fee claims
Consulting and representation with regard to disputes under liability law

Preparation, design and monitoring of IT projects
Creation of software, especially agile software development as well as traditional software development ("waterfall model") including preparation (letter of intent, memorandum of understanding)
Use of software and hardware on a temporary basis, in particular cloud computing (CC), application service providing (ASP), software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS)
License agreements
Software maintenance, hardware maintenance and other support services
Outsourcing agreements
Software and hardware distribution: drafting and negotiation of general terms and conditions and framework agreements and distribution agreements
Tendering of IT services, EVB-IT (supplementary terms for the procurement of IT services)
Assertion and defense of claims in and out of court, e.g. in the event of software defects, licence infringements and liability issues (claims for damages)
Reversal of failed software projects
Defence against negative ratings and representations on the Internet, including enforcement by means of a preliminary injunction
E-Commerce (designing of online shops, both B2B and B2C)
App agreements, in particular drafting of terms of use
Law governing online platforms including social media (drafting of terms of use, defence against claims, etc.)
Law governing search engines (Google, Bing, Yandex, etc.)
Online marketing including SEO
Competition and liability law on the Internet

Co-Autor der 3. Aufl. 2018 des Handbuch des Fachanwalts Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz (Erdmann, Rojahn und Sosnitza (Hrsg.)), Carl Heymanns Verlag

Die Neuregelungen zur Vertragsstrafe im UWG (GRUR-Prax 13/2021)
Urteilsbesprechung LG Hamburg: Gutschein über 50 Euro für erstmalige Faltenunterspritzung ist nicht zu beanstanden (GRUR-Prax 19/2011)
Urteilsbesprechung BPatG: Wortzeichen Fürst von Metternich ist für Weinführer und Tanzveranstaltungen schutzfähig (GRUR-Prax 16/2011)
Nutzung fremder Marken in der eigenen Werbung
(Wirtschaft Regional Oktober 2010)
Neues zum Nachahmungsschutz (Inside Nr. 822, 27.03.2009)
Blutalkoholkonzentrationen im Rahmen der
§§ 315c, 316, 20, 21 StGB, JuS 1993, 674