Dr. Thomas Stögmüller, LL.M.(Berkeley)
Partner, certified specialist for information technology law


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Practice areas
- IT law, in particular license agreements, service level agreements and Terms & Conditions
- Outsourcing
- Telecommunications law
- Data protection
- E-commerce, in particular website check, Terms & Conditions and privacy policy
- Copyright law and intellectual property rights (patents and trademark law), competition law
- Antitrust law
Clients
German, British and U.S. companies in the following sectors:
- Software
- Telecommunications
- Service providers in the fields of Internet advertising and search engine marketing (SEM)
- Electronic commerce
- Logistics
- Banks and pharmaceutical and chemical companies as customers of IT and outsourcing services
- Wholesalers and suppliers
Curriculum vitae
Brief biography of Dr. Thomas Stögmüller
- Born in 1966
- 1986 – 1995: Law studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, law clerkships in Munich and Sydney
- 1991 – 1995: Fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law
- 1993: doctoral degree (Dr. jur.) from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Gerhard Schricker, on the subject of “Deutsche Einigung und Urheberrecht” [German Unification and Copyright]
- March, 1995: admitted to the bar in Munich
- 1995 – 1996: successful completion of LL.M degree program at the University of California, Berkeley with a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- 1997 – 1998: lawyer (senior civil servant status, Regierungsrat z.A.) in the telecommunications department of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Transport and Technology, Munich
- since 1998 practice of law in Frankfurt (including at Clifford Chance and as head of IT and telecommunications law practice group at Haarmann Hemmelrath) and in Munich
- June, 2008: Certified specialist attorney for information technology law
- July, 2011: Founding partner of TCI Rechtsanwälte in Munich
- Since September 2017: Assistant lecturer of the law faculty of Georg-August-University Göttingen
Publications and lectures
Lectures and publications (selected)
Vertrieb von Software über das Internet [Online Software Distribution]
Handbuch der IT-Verträge, Cologne (2018)
Press: Redeker (ed.)
Procurement of standard software for an unlimited period for one-time or recurrent payment
Handbook of Software Law
Press: Intveen/Gennen/Karger (together with Dr. Thomas Fischl)
Internationale Bezüge des IT-Rechts einschließlich Internationales Privatrecht [International References in IT Law including International Private Law]
Münchener Anwaltshandbuch IT-Recht, Munich, 3rd revised and extended ed. 2013
Press: Leupold/Glossner (ed.)
Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme in Unternehmen [Confidentiality and Integrity of Corporate Information Technology Systems]
Press: CR 2008, 435
List of Publications
Download complete List of PublicationsTeaching Activity
- Assistant lecturer of the law faculty of Georg-August-University Göttingen
- Guest lectures at the law faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
- Lecturer for certification courses in IT law at Deutsche Anwaltakademie
Memberships
- davit – Arbeitsgemeinschaft IT-Recht im DAV
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik(German Association of Law and Informatics) (Head of the Expert Committee on Contract Law)
- International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw)
- Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR)
- Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS) (German Institution of Arbitration)