Dr. Volker Knies

Dr. Volker Knies is a lawyer and founding partner of NESSELHAUF Rechtsanwälte in Hamburg, with a practice focused on intellectual property and competition law. His listed fields include trademark, copyright, design and patent law, together with licensing agreements. He advises national and international clients on their trademark portfolios.

Licensing is a further focus of his advisory work. His dispute practice covers both the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the defence of clients in infringement matters, as well as competition disputes. That work includes proceedings in court and matters handled outside court.

Knies belongs to the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property, known as GRUR, and the International Trademark Association, or INTA. During his professional training, he worked at a law firm in Sydney, Australia. In 2017, AI Global named him “Leading Intellectual Property Practitioner of the Year – Germany,” according to his firm biography.

His firm is based at Alsterchaussee 40 in Hamburg. NESSELHAUF Rechtsanwälte describes its wider practice as advising businesses across industries and private individuals on press, copyright, music and media law. The firm also advises on intellectual property, information technology and related areas of law. These are the practice areas of the firm as a whole; Knies’s own profile concentrates on intellectual property portfolios, licensing, infringement matters and competition disputes.