Leonard Pietsch
Associate*

Profile

Leonard Pietsch specializes in trademark, design, copyright and competition law as well as IT law. He advises and represents rights holders in the defense and enforcement of their trademarks and other intellectual property rights on a national and international level. He also advises on IP and IT-related corporate transactions.

Leonard Pietsch studied at Freie Universität Berlin. He subsequently undertook academic work in the field of energy law and worked as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam. During his legal traineeship, he worked for Freshfields in the field of M&A/Corporate and for the law firm Vogel Heerma Waitz (V14) in the field of Venture Capital and IP. He started his attorney’s practice in 2021 at the law firm Poellath, also in the field of Venture Capital and joined Lubberger Lehment in July 2022.

Biography

Forums

• GRUR

Publications

• Fahrlässiger Handel mit Betäubungsmitteln Steinberg/Pietsch,
  StV 2019, 332 ff.
• Die Streitwertbemessung bei Beschwerden auf Zuschlagserteilung im EEG, Drake/Pietsch, IR 2018, 173 ff.
• Anm. zu BPatG – Mangelnde Unterscheidungskraft von Motto-Sprüchen, GRUR-Prax 2023, 38
• Anm. zu LG Berlin – Kein Rechtsbruch bei Übererfüllung unionsrechtlicher Vorgaben – “Gold Plating”, GRUR-Prax 2025, 159