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Lawyers for border seizure

Our border seizure lawyers help you to combat counterfeit goods and illegal parallel imports. Acting on your behalf, they submit online applications to the customs authorities (Central Unit for Intellectual Property) to stop deliveries of goods that infringe your intellectual property rights. 

In many cases, the products are then withdrawn from the market and destroyed. This strategy allows our specialists to enforce your trademark, patent, copyright, utility patent, registered design and plant variety protection rights. 

After filing the application, our border seizure lawyers continue to advise you throughout the entire procedure. When the customs authority reports a seizure, our lawyers consult with you to establish whether your rights have been infringed. If this is the case, they request the recipient to grant approval for destruction of the goods (which our lawyers then also organise).

The contact details of our border seizure lawyers are listed below. Please feel free to get in touch at any time. More information on our expertise in border seizure can be found by fol-lowing this link.

 
Dirk Smielick
Dr. Dirk Smielick
Principal Counsel
Rechtsanwalt | Fachanwalt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (Certified lawyer for intellectual property law)
Germany, Cologne
Dirk Smielick's advises clients on research and development projects that are undertaken both with other companies and universities. His many years of expertise in this area include advising on the initiation...
Nina Stolzenburg
Dr. Nina Stolzenburg
Principal Counsel
Rechtsanwältin
Germany, Hamburg
Nina Stolzenburg focuses on advising companies on trademark, design and copyright as well as on unfair competition matters, including the German Heilmittelwerberecht, which regulates advertising in the...
Claudia Böhmer
Claudia Böhmer, LL.M. (University of East Anglia)
Counsel
Rechtsanwältin | Fachanwältin für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (Certified lawyer for intellectual property law)
Germany, Cologne
Claudia Böhmer specialises in enforcing trademark and design rights in and out of court. She is also experienced in the legal review of advertising campaigns, advising and representing companies, among...
Thomas Fröhlich
Thomas Fröhlich
Counsel
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Stuttgart
Thomas Fröhlich specialises in advising and representing clients in IP law, with expertise in patent and utility model, trade secret, competition, trademark as well as employee invention law. His practice...
Philine-Luise Pulst
Dr. Philine-Luise Pulst, LL.M. (University of Cape Town)
Counsel
Rechtsanwältin
Germany, Hamburg
Philine-Luise Pulst advises companies on trademark, design and copyright as well as on unfair competition matters. She is specialised in IP enforcement issues, especially focussing on anti-counterfeiting...
Lukas Stelten
Dr. Lukas Stelten
Counsel
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Cologne
Lukas Stelten advises German and international companies on all data protection related issues, including international data transfers (BCR, model clauses, consents, etc.), the use of employee, social...
Adrian Zarm
Adrian Zarm, LL.M., MGlobL (University of Sydney)
Counsel
Rechtsanwalt | Fachanwalt für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (Certified lawyer for intellectual property law)
Germany, Cologne
Adrian Zarm advises and represents German and international clients on all aspects of trade mark, design, copyright and unfair competition law. He focuses both on the out-of-court and in-court defence...
Julia Dreyer
Dr. Julia Dreyer
Senior Associate
Rechtsanwältin
Germany, Hamburg
Julia Dreyer specialises in technology, media and communications as well as intellectual property. She works on product development, contracts and knowledge transfer within IP as well as IT, data, media...
Thomas Fuhrmann
Thomas Fuhrmann, LL.M. (University of Capetown)
Senior Associate
Rechtsanwalt
Germany, Cologne
Thomas Fuhrmann specialises in intellectual property law, with a focus on advising and representing companies in trademark matters. He joined CMS in 2020
Julia Hugendubel
Dr. Julia Hugendubel, LL.M. (FGV Rio de Janeiro)
Senior Associate
Rechtsanwältin
Germany, Munich
Julia Hugendubel advises and represents German and international clients in IT and IP law. She specialises in new technologies, with a focus on blockchain and crypto projects. As an expert she focuses...