Oliver Schäfer

Oliver Schäfer is an Attorney-at-Law and advises in the fields of intellectual property and copyright law.

Oliver Schäfer was admitted to the Munich bar in 2023.

In the field of intellectual property, he specialises in patent law and copyright law.

Patent litigation is at the centre of his patent law practice. Oliver Schäfer assists in patent infringement proceedings and prosecutes patent infringements out of court.

Oliver Schäfer also advises on copyright law issues. The focus of his work is on the interface between copyright law and technical developments. A particular focus is on providing legal support for current developments in artificial intelligence, such as the legally compliant implementation of AI systems in work processes.

Mr Schäfer's range of advice in the field of intellectual property law also includes trademark and competition law issues.

Mr Schäfer studied in Bonn. He completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Cologne with stations in a law firm specialising in intellectual property law and in the in-house legal department of a large corporation.

Attorney-at-Law at Wallinger Ricker Schlotter Tostmann since 2023

Oliver Schäfer is a doctoral student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where he previously worked for several years as a research assistant at a chair specialising in the field of intellectual property.

He also gained experience as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich and in the department specialising in intellectual property law at an internationally active medium-sized law firm in Munich.

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

• Leistner/Schäfer, Rechtliche Möglichkeiten und Grenzen eines schutzdauerbezogenen Ausgleichs für Opfer des NS-Regimes im Urheberrecht, GRUR 2017, 868-872.