I'm Christoph ANN

ABOUT ME

Professor Christoph Ann holds the Chair of IP Law (www.jura.wi.tum.de) at Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Management. Prof. Ann has earned law degrees in Germany and the U.S. (Duke ’88) and before coming to Munich practiced as an attorney in Munich and Erlangen. From 2000-2003 he taught IP law as a full Professor of Law in Freiburg/Br., then Germany’s #1 law school. From 2001-2003 he also served as a judge on the Mannheim Regional Court’s renowned IP Infringement Panel with jurisdiction over the technologically eminent German state of Baden-Württemberg. Prof. Ann’s has published six books and more than 150 contributions to journals and books. His new edition of the German speaking world’s leading treatise on Patent law (>1,100 pp.) appeared in Feb. 2016. Prof. Ann’s interests focus on the European and International Law of Technology Protection (Patents & Trade Secrets) including Licensing and Competition Law, including respective business environments (IP strategy and IP management). Prof. Ann is a listed Neutral with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, chairman of the Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce’s Standing Court of Commercial Arbitration and has served as an arbitrator for ICC, UNCITRAL, and German Arbitration Institution (DIS). Frequently, he serves as an expert for German and European IP Law.