NORDEMANN is a German law firm focused on IP and IT law. NORDEMANN has offices in Berlin and Potsdam. The team offers strategic legal advice, creative solutions and delivers results. Their voice has academic weight and has led to many landmark cases in Germany, especially in copyright, trademark and unfair competition law. NORDEMANN represents many international and national clients.

NORDEMANN enforces and protects its clients’ rights. They are highly experienced and renowned in taking rights infringers and also intermediaries into liability. Their work has created many precedents and has further developed the law in favor of rights holders, e.g. in the field of website blocking and responsibility of domain registrars and host providers. NORDEMANN fights the infringement of tangible (e.g. counterfeit products) and non-tangible goods (e.g. illegal making available of content on the internet) and does not only secure its clients’ rights in civil proceedings but also via criminal law.

NORDEMANN’s experience includes:

• Enforcing copyright, designs and trademarks on a large scale on the Internet.
• Taking intermediaries into responsibility in complex judiciary proceedings, e.g. internet access providers, host providers, domain registrars, advertisement service providers.
• Negotiating agreements with intermediaries and their associations to ensure effective (non-judicial) ways of right protection.
• Using legal means to identify infringers concealing their identity.
• Establishing website blocking before German courts.
• Defending companies against unwarranted copyright claims for equitable remuneration and additional participation under German law.
• Initiating and assisting criminal prosecution against rights infringers.
• Advising on legislative developments in Germany and the EU.

Among the team members of NORDEMANN, especially Jan Bernd Nordemann is regularly listed as one of the leading German copyright and trademark lawyers, inter alia by the World Trademark Review 1000, JUVE and is recommended by “Best Lawyers” in the field of IP, Entertainment and Media.