Clarissa Otto

I work as Counsel in our Munich-based intellectual property team, where I mainly advise on trademark, design, copyright and unfair competition law, providing our domestic and international clients with strategic advice and representing them in complex litigation matters. One of my focus areas are geographical indications.

I represent clients from a wide range of sectors – among them food and beverages, hotel industry, automotive, publishing and media – in a variety of contentious matters before various regional and higher regional courts in Germany as well as the German Federal Patent Court. My experience also extends to non-contentious advice in various trademark, copyright, design and unfair competition matters.

After studying law, I undertook my legal traineeship, which included stints at the German Federal Network Agency, our Düsseldorf office and in-house, at a DAX-listed company in Munich.

Before joining our team, I worked at an international American-based law firm in Düsseldorf, focusing on competition and trademark law and M&A.