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Nina Stolzenburg
Principal Counsel

Dr. Nina Stolzenburg

Rechtsanwältin

Languages
  • German
  • English
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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 healthcare sector. She specialises in IP enforcement, with particular expertise in anti-counterfeiting and illegal parallel imports. In this context, she develops strategies, advises on border seizure applications and handles the whole border seizure procedure including all customs legislation, civil and criminal law aspects. Nina is also an experienced product liability lawyer.

She has special life sciences sector expertise and acts for pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies as well as for medical device and plant protection product manufacturers. Fashion, cosmetics and luxury goods companies also regularly seek Nina’s advice.

Nina joined CMS in 2010 and has been a principal counsel since 2020. She gained client-side experience on secondments with an internationally operating pharmaceutical company and the German distributor of a Danish medical device manufacturer.

Awards & Recognitions
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    Listed for Intellectual Property
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Biotechnology Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Intellectual Property
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Biotechnology Law
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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    Listed for Intellectual Property
    Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers

Relevant experience

Pharma

  • Advising and representing several internationally operating pharmaceutical companies regarding anti-counterfeiting in Germany

Medical devices

  • Advising and representing an internationally operating medical device manufacturer regarding product liability
  • Advising and representing a European medical device manufacturer regarding advertising law matters

Plant protection products

  • Advising and representing several manufacturers of plant protection products regarding anti-counterfeiting
  • Advising a plant protection product manufacturer with global operations on a cross-border product liability case

Publications

  • Vereinfachtes Vernichtungsverfahren unter der EU-Produktpiraterieverordnung und deutsches Annexverfahren, Update Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Kartellrecht, April 2016, p. 17 f.
  • Nächste Etappe im Kampf gegen Produktpiraterie; Impulse, www.impulse.de, 18.03.2014
  • Was kommt und was geht mit der neuen EU-Produktpiraterieverordnung?, Update Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Kartellrecht, March 2014, p. 19
  • Das Veranstalterleistungsschutzrecht, Mohr Siebeck, 2010

Memberships & Roles

  • German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
  • German Bar Association’s working group for medical law

Lectures list

  • Die EU-Grenzbeschlagnahmeverordnung - VO (EU) Nr. 608/2013 (PPVO), DVIS-Vortragsveranstaltung zum Thema "Die Verletzung gewerblicher Schutzrechte durch das beförderte Gut", Hamburg, 31.01.2019
  • Panel-Beitrag zum Thema Produktpirateriebekämpfung – Was funktioniert in Deutschland und was könnte besser laufen?, Forum Spitze bleiben, Berlin
  • Produktbezogene Werbung und Grenzen der Zusammenarbeit mit Angehörigen der Fachkreise, Inhouse-Schulung, Februar 2011, Berlin

Education

  • 2007 - 2010: PhD at the University of Hanover; thesis on related rights of organizers of events, including research in Vienna, Zurich and Bern
  • 2005 - 2007: Trainee lawyer at Celle Higher Regional Court
  • 2000 - 2005: Law studies at the University of Hanover, including supplementary ADVO-certificate course (practice-oriented programme)
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