Dr. Rolf B. Arnade

Dr. Rolf B. Arnade was born in 1960 in Wesseling near Cologne. After a banking apprenticeship he studied law in Bochum, Munich, Münster, Dallas (USA) and Oxford (GB - University College). In Dallas in 1988 he earned the title of Master of Laws (LL.M.). In 1990 he received his doctorate at the University of Westphalia on an international trademark law topic. The dissertation was published as a book by the publisher Duncker & Humblot. He completed his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf with posts in the State Chancellery and in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Dresden and at a New York Wall Street law firm. Dr. Arnade is admitted to practice as a lawyer in Germany and the US state of New York.

Dr. Arnade initially worked as a corporate lawyer and led the legal department of an international engineering group with subsidiaries in the US, Brazil, Switzerland, India and China. In 1997 he set up a lawyer's office in Dresden specializing in intellectual property law, with which he joined BSKP in 2014. Dr. Arnade is a specialist lawyer for intellectual property rights and was until 2014 chairman of the specialist lawyer's committee for industrial property protection of the bar association Dresden.

The British magazine Finance Monthly awarded Dr. Arnade as Lawyer of the Year – IP Law – Germany – in 2019 and 2020.

He advises companies in the field of intellectual property law (trademark law, patent law, unfair competition), supervises mandates in copyright and media law, arranges business start-ups, also with cross-border structure, and oversees corporate and commercial disputes, especially in international trade.

• Intellectual Property
• Intellectual property registration and defense in intellectual property
• Defense against warnings
• Advice on corporate law matters and representation in corporate law disputes; Design of international joint venture company "M & A"
• Representation in commercial disputes, also in international business law
• Contract drafting, negotiation and enforcement