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About the founder Stefan Zdarsky

After longer activity as in-house counsel in the business sector with emphasis on national and international contract law, liability law (especially product liability respectively liability of the manufacturer) as well as law of competition (cartel law and especially advertising law – German Act Against Unfair Competition (in German: Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG)), Stefan Zdarsky gladly provides you with advice with focus on these matters.

Stefan Zdarsky is certified specialist lawyer for the protection of intellectual property rights.

About our law firm

There are 3 lawyers permanently in the Frankfurt office with 2 further cooperation partners for certain areas of consultancy (i.e. data protection etc).

Our major services

Our focus lies in the field of support for producers, distributors and importers, further dealers.

The areas of consultancy we are specialized, are

– commercial contracts in the field of distribution national and international

– trademarks, design and other intellectual property rights (especially processing of the application and protection of rights, processing of admonishment-notifications on either side, defence of IP rights and defence against unjustified attacks)

– regulatory affairs, esp. technical law requirements (CE-marking) and how to comply with standards and marketing obligations within the EU, esp. Germany.

We gladly respond to your questions concerning “Technical Law”, which means product safety regulations, diverse Directives like Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC), EMC-Directive (2014/30/eu), RoHS (2011/65/EU), Low Voltage (2006/95/EC) etc. as well as the interpretation of international standards ISO, EN or DIN in respect of the relevant technologies to be evaluated.

Copyright law and law of publishing as well as concerning internet law (IT-law), especially concerning contracts, domains, long distance sales and infringement of proprietary rights are an additional focus.

Our clients are mainly internationally operating small and medium-sized enterprises and for certain aspects (IP law and technical law) international corporations and NGOs; besides, we are legal consultants of some German industrial associations.

Further information

In the following pages you will find several information about our services especially offered for clients from abroad.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.