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Meissner Bolte offers full-service protection of industrial property rights for innovative companies at home and abroad. Starting with the application process, through prosecution, to the enforcement and exploitation of your intellectual property rights, we are the IP experts to have at your side.
At Meissner Bolte, comprehensive IP consultation means teamwork. More than 80 highly qualified patent attorneys and lawyers work together using their combined legal expertise to protect and defend your creative accomplishments, technical innovations, unique products and valuable methods. Our teams focus on protecting industrial property rights in their entirety, combining all opportunities afforded by patent, trademark and design law with a single objective in mind: to develop and implement a sustainable strategy for your IP management.
Through continuous interaction between our patent attorneys and lawyers – internally, as well as with our valued colleagues abroad – we can offer our clients the best advice and service, both nationally and internationally.
Our consultation services are orientated towards the raft of German small to medium-sized enterprises (Mittelstand), as well as multinational and fully international corporations. In our opinion, it is important to address all of our clients’ needs equally, providing accurate and timely communication on all legal and technical issues.
Bettina Hart
Bettina Hart was admitted to the bar in 2007 and joined Meissner Bolte in 2019. Today, she is part of the firm’s specialised department for Trademarks & Design.
As a German lawyer who advises and represents national and international clients in areas of IP, Bettina’s speciality is unfair competition and trademarks, as well as employee invention compensation. Her activities include out-of-court and in-court enforcement of trademark infringements, combined with prohibitions of unfair business practices, also by way of interim relief.
She supports clients from diverse sectors in establishing, maintaining and defending trademark portfolios, in addition to negotiating and drafting contracts.
With more than 17 years’ in-house experience in companies of differing industrial sectors, her advice has a key focus on companies and subsequent issues, particularly from the fields of commercial and corporate, contract, data privacy, insolvency – and the law on general terms and conditions. She also takes a special account of the effects on departments not specifically impacted by such legal matters.
Bettina studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and passed her legal clerkship in the district of the Regional Court Landshut, as well as at the governmental administration of Lower Bavaria. Furthermore, she completed the specialist course on IP law and the Bitkom certificate course for data protection officers.
She is an active member of the friends’ association of the Institute of Construction Technologies & Management at the Technical University of Darmstadt, GRUR, as well as the Lawyers Bar Association in Munich.
