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Dr. Zora Graef

Attorney at Law (Germany)

Zora Graef advises on industrial property law. She specializes in particular in advising on patent law matters and in the field of employee invention law. In addition, she has particular expertise in licensing law and know-how protection.

Zora Graef completed her legal training in Berlin. She received her doctorate in patent law from Humboldt University in Berlin and spent a research stay at the University of Texas at Austin.

Expertise – Practices and industries:
Licensing Law Patent Law Employee Invention Law Law on the Protection of Trade Secrets
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  • Publications
    • Use of patent priority in an international context, GRUR 2025, 1228
    • Foreign priorities in patent law – An empirical analysis (Mohr Siebeck, 2025)
    • The Abitron v. Hetronic case and its significance for the question of the scope of national trademark and patent law, GRUR 2023, 1235
    • IT arbitration proceedings – a solution to the backlog of cases caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, MMR 2021, 521 (with Axel Metzger)
    • Arbitration proceedings in IT-related legal disputes, iX – Magazine for Professional Information Technology 2021, 102 (with Axel Metzger and Sven Vetter)
    • 12 of the new EU P2B Regulation – The appointment of arbitration bodies as mediators, CR 2020, 739 (with Axel Metzger and Sven Vetter)
  • Awards
    • Karlheinz Quack Dissertation Prize 2024
    • GRUR Dissertation Prize, Patent Law Category, 2024
  • Memberships
    • Member of the German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR)
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