Ronny Hauck

Prof. Dr. Ronny Hauck is active in the entire field of intellectual property law. One focus of Professor Hauck’s work in TWAINSCORE’s IP team is litigation in patent law and the protection of trade secrets.

Prof. Hauck studied law in Erlangen and Augsburg (Dr. iur.) and subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the Technical University of Munich (Chair of Business Law and Intellectual Property). He then worked as a lawyer for one of the major German law firms, mainly in the field of antitrust law. Prof. Hauck completed his post-doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Prof. Hauck gained experience in foreign jurisdictions through research stays (as a Visiting Scholar), inter alia, at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. He was also a guest lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and Leading Scholar at the Moscow National Research University/Higher School of Economics in the International Laboratory on Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law. Prof. Hauck has been a lecturer in the LL.M. program “Intellectual Property and Media Law” at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the BeckAkademie for many years. He has been teaching at Humboldt University since the end of 2016, namely in copyright law, patent law, license agreement law, trade secret protection law and trademark law.

In addition to his dissertation on a licensing and antitrust law topic and his habilitation on “Nießbrauch an Rechten”, Prof. Hauck is the author of numerous publications on innovation/technology protection (in particular patent law and know-how protection/protection of trade secrets), on the exploitation of intellectual property rights (including insolvency law and antitrust law), on copyright law, on data business law and on trademark law. He is co-editor of GRUR-Prax.