BRANDI lawyers.
Rebecca Vakilzadeh
About me
- Born in 1988
- Studied law with additional training in business and economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany
- First Exam ("1. Staatsexamen") in 2013
- Legal clerkship ("Refrendariat") at the Bamberg Higher District Court
- Additional training as business mediator (MuCDR)
- Second (Bar) Exam ("2. Staatsexamen") in 2015
- Attorney with the law firm of Schindhelm Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH in Osnabrück in the area of IP/IT, 2016 - 2017
- Joined the firm in 2017
- Certified Specialized Attorney in Intellectual Property Law since 2020
Competence
IP rights & competition law
Competition law
- 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
Trade mark and designation law
- 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
Design law
- Application of German and EU designs (formerly known as design patents)
- Design infringements (warning, preliminary injunction, action)
- Design license agreements
Patent and utility model law
- Cooperation with patent attorneys
- Employee invention law
- R&D contracts
- Technology transfer agreement
- Patent license agreements
Know-how protection
- Non-disclosure agreements (NDA)
- Know-how protection agreements
Copyright
- 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)
IT & data protection
IT-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
- 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.)
- Competition and liability law on the Internet
Data protection law
- Advice on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz; BDSG) and other data protection laws
- Data protection documentation and record of processing activities
- Drafting and review of agreements on order processing
- Pre-checking, testing, evaluation and privacy-related documentation of IT systems such as video surveillance
- Data protection for websites and online shopts
- Privacy statements and data protection in e-commerce
- Advice on technical and organizational measures
- Data protection in international dealings, international data transfer
- Drafting of data protection and privacy provisions in works agreements
- Communication with data protection supervisory authorities
Publications
Contributions to books
- Ergänzender lauterkeitsrechtlicher Leistungsschutz, in: Hoeren, Moderecht (Handbuch), München, 2019
Essays
- "Die neuen Bestpreisklauseln stärken Plattformanbieter", in: Wirtschaftswoche 2019
Memberships
- Verein clubfreier Golfspieler im DGV e.V.
- RW Alumni (Recht und Wirtschaft in Bayreuth e.V.)