Meike Neusser-Depken

Expertise Meike Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Intellectual Property, Competition & IP Compliance

+49 40 822 182 301 +49 40 88 29 56 36

Expertise

Meike Neusser-Depken is an experienced lawyer, specialising in intellectual property law with 20 years of professional experience, based in Hamburg.

She advises clients from the cultural and creative industries, as well as innovative individuals and companies, focusing on trademark, design, and competition law. Meike represents clients before both national and international IP offices, and in court proceedings.

Her expertise includes the registration, enforcement, and defence of trademarks, advising on international trademark strategies, managing trademark portfolios, as well as handling trademark assignments and licensing agreements.

Meike has extensive experience in out-of-court dispute resolution between trademark owners. She has also completed mediation training, enhancing her conflict resolution and communication skills.

In addition, Meike is a certified compliance officer (TÜV).

Meike Advises

  • Private individuals, founders
  • start-ups
  • SMEs
  • Designers, artists, cultural professionals
  • Innovative companies

Experience Highlights

  • Successfully conducted numerous IP proceedings before the DPMA, the EUIPO, the WIPO and the German courts
  • Defence of the trademark of a client from the media industry against several well-known trademarks of Time Magazine
  • Development and implementation of a global trademark strategy for an expanding company in the medical sector
  • Germany-wide legal representation in numerous copyright proceedings for an international company in the entertainment industry
  • Extensive representation in several parallel trademark proceedings before the Federal Patent Court, the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court in a dispute between two pan-European logistics companies
  • Representation in competition law proceedings against a large German insurance company

Career History

Previous Law firms

In her legal career, Meike has worked for various specialised boutique law firms, a patent law firm and her own law firm in intellectual property law.

Memberships

  • German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)

Education

  • University of Berlin (FU) and University of Hamburg, 1st state examination (1994)
  • OLG Schleswig, 2nd state examination (1998)
  • University of Hagen, Mediation (2011)
  • Hagen Law School, specialist lawyer course in intellectual property law (2017)
  • Advanced training: Compliance Officer (TÜV) (2024)

 

 

 

Meike is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

Expertise

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Meike Neusser-Depken is an experienced lawyer, specialising in intellectual property law with 20 years of professional experience, based in Hamburg.

She advises clients from the cultural and creative industries, as well as innovative individuals and companies, focusing on trademark, design, and competition law. Meike represents clients before both national and international IP offices, and in court proceedings.

Her expertise includes the registration, enforcement, and defence of trademarks, advising on international trademark strategies, managing trademark portfolios, as well as handling trademark assignments and licensing agreements.

Meike has extensive experience in out-of-court dispute resolution between trademark owners. She has also completed mediation training, enhancing her conflict resolution and communication skills.

In addition, Meike is a certified compliance officer (TÜV).

Meike Advises

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  • Private individuals, founders
  • start-ups
  • SMEs
  • Designers, artists, cultural professionals
  • Innovative companies

Experience Highlights

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  • Successfully conducted numerous IP proceedings before the DPMA, the EUIPO, the WIPO and the German courts
  • Defence of the trademark of a client from the media industry against several well-known trademarks of Time Magazine
  • Development and implementation of a global trademark strategy for an expanding company in the medical sector
  • Germany-wide legal representation in numerous copyright proceedings for an international company in the entertainment industry
  • Extensive representation in several parallel trademark proceedings before the Federal Patent Court, the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court in a dispute between two pan-European logistics companies
  • Representation in competition law proceedings against a large German insurance company

Career History

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Previous Law firms

In her legal career, Meike has worked for various specialised boutique law firms, a patent law firm and her own law firm in intellectual property law.

Memberships

  • German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)

Education

  • University of Berlin (FU) and University of Hamburg, 1st state examination (1994)
  • OLG Schleswig, 2nd state examination (1998)
  • University of Hagen, Mediation (2011)
  • Hagen Law School, specialist lawyer course in intellectual property law (2017)
  • Advanced training: Compliance Officer (TÜV) (2024)

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Meike is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).