Kristin Hansen

Business Development Manager

Kristin Hansen is responsible for the commercial management of our law firm; as Business Development Manager she is responsible for the areas of process optimisation, controlling, personnel and marketing.

She previously worked internationally for a US technology group for over 10 years. Her work centres on maintaining and improving the quality of the firm’s services; to achieve this, she scrutinises the firm’s internal and external processes, works continuously on team development, refines working standards and adds new facets to the firm’s contours.

+49 69 240 07 32-0

hansen@lex.tm

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German, English

Expertise

Who will envy her working “alone” in a team of lawyers? It is one of Kristin Hansen’s strengths to see this special position as a challenge, to view the operation of a law firm with the objective eye of someone from outside the profession, to recognise opportunities for change, even if they are off the beaten track of the legal profession, and to manage these changes.

Career

Business Development Manager at lexTM (since 2020)
E-commerce and product marketing activities at a US tech company (2007-2020)

My Motivation

“After working for a US technology group for over ten years, it was a particular challenge for me to transfer my knowledge and experience to the environment of a law firm. For me, the focus is on client relationships, which are amazingly similar across industry boundaries. I love putting the firm’s internal and external processes to the test in order to constantly improve the legal work of our team and the overall service we provide to our clients.”

Representative Procedures from the years 2021 and 2022

The following exemplary procedures are intended to give an idea of Gernot’s litigation practice:

Successful defense of a market-leading consumer goods manufacturer in patent litigation before the Düsseldorf District Court and the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (confirmed by the Federal Court of Justice).

Successful defense of a market-leading consumer goods manufacturer in patent litigation before the Düsseldorf District Court and the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (confirmed by the Federal Court of Justice).

Representation of a patent holder in the field of screed pumps in patent litigation before the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt (currently still pending).

Representation of a HR services company in trademark litigation before the Frankfurt Regional Court and the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court. In the second instance, the judgment of the Frankfurt Regional Court dismissing the action in its entirety was corrected and the client’s claims were enforced.

Successful representation of an engineering firm in a case concerning know-how protection for Kaplan turbines before the Regional Court of Memmingen.

Successful representation of a market-leading manufacturer of industrial furnaces in several competition proceedings concerning the application of replica furnaces (together with C. Klahm).

Representation of a market-leading manufacturer of industrial furnaces in two patent infringement proceedings and one patent infringement proceeding before the Düsseldorf District Court (currently still pending).

Constant advice and representation of a number of German universities, inter alia in trademark matters, press matters, design matters and infringements of (corporate) personal rights.

Ongoing advice and representation of a leading German medical technology company in patent, trademark and design matters.

Constant representation of a U.S. consumer goods manufacturer in numerous competition proceedings concerning passing off, trademark infringement and unfair competition in courts throughout Germany.

Ongoing advice and representation of a Swiss industrial company in matters of patent, trademark and competition law.

Mitgliedschaften

Lehrbeauftragter an den Universitäten Frankfurt, Mainz und der Hochschule Darmstadt
Fachanwalt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz
Promotion zum mittelalterlichen italienischen Handelsrecht
Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Erlangen, Parma und Frankfurt
Ongoing advice and representation of a leading German medical technology company in patent, trademark and design matters.
Ongoing advice and representation of a Swiss industrial company in matters of patent, trademark and competition law.

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