Draft:Tim Dornis

From 1995 to 1999, Tim W. Dornis studied law and economics at the University of Tübingen in Germany (graduating with the First State Examination (J.D. equivalent) in June 1999). From 1999 to 2001 he completed his legal traineeship at the Tübingen Regional Court with an international externship at Clayton Utz Lawyers in Sydney, Australia (graduating with the Second State Examination at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court). In 2003, Tim W. Dornis graduated at Columbia University Law School (LL.M., Kent Scholar (top 1-3%)). In 2004, he was admitted as an attorney-at-law in New York. After completing his doctorate (Ph.D. equivalent) at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Wolfgang Ernst (in 2004), he spent several years in an international law firm (Gleiss Lutz) and as a tenured judge at the Stuttgart Regional Court. During this time he began working on his post-doc qualification (habilitation). He completed his post-doc studies at research stays at Stanford Law School (SPILS Fellow, graduating as J.S.M., 2009) and at NYU School of Law (Hauser Global Fellow, 2011). From 2011 to 2021, Tim W. Dornis held the Chair of Private Law, International Private and Commercial Law, and Comparative Law at Leuphana University Lüneburg. In 2016, he received an offer ("call") to take a chair at the Faculty of Law at the University of Leipzig. Since, 2021 he holds the Chair of Private Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hannover. In addition, Tim W. Dornis has been a Global Professor of Law at NYU School of Law since 2018 and a Honorary Professor at the University of Zurich since 2021.

Selected writings:

• Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts: Historical-Comparative, Doctrinal, and Economic Perspectives, Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series, Bently & Cornish eds., Cambridge University Press 2017 (696 pages), open access on Cambridge CORE (post-doc habilitation thesis).
• Trademarks, Comparative Advertising, and Product Imitations: An Untold Story of Law and Economics, 121 Penn State Law Review (Penn State L. Rev.) 421-470 (2016) (co-authored with Thomas Wein).
• Behind the Steele Curtain – An Empirical Study of Trademark Conflicts Cases, 1952-2016, 20 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L.) 567-653 (2018).
• Wigmorian Copyright: Law, Economics, and Socio-Cultural Evolution, Intellectual Property Quarterly (IPQ) 2018, 159-180.
• Standard-Essential Patents and FRAND Licensing – At the Crossroads of Economic Theory and Legal Practice, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (J. Eur. Comp. L. & Pract.) vol. 11 (2020), 575-591.
• Artificial Creativity: Emergent Works and the Void in Current IP Law, 22 Yale Journal of Law & Technology (Yale J. L. & Tech.) 2020, pp. 1-60.
• Artificial Intelligence and Innovation: The End of Patent Law As We Know It, 23 Yale Journal of Law & Technology (Yale J. L. & Tech.) 2020, pp. 97-159.
• Of “Authorless Works“ and “Inventions without Inventor” – The Muddy Waters of “AI Autonomy” in Intellectual Property Doctrine, European Intellectual Property Review (E.I.P.R.) 2021, 570-585.
• Künstliche Intelligenz und internationaler Vertragsschluss, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ) 2023, 306-325.
• Künstliche Intelligenz und Vertragsschluss, Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (AcP) 223 (2023), 717-746.