Chair of the ECTA Geographical Indications Committee, BRL Boege Rohde Luebbbehuesen mbB, DE

Andrea Ringle is a partner of the multidisciplinary German law firm BRL and a registered specialist lawyer for intellectual property rights. Within the firm BRL she is head of the legal team for Intellectual Property and Information Technology advice. She works in theses fields of law since 2002 and has collected particular experience in connection with geographical indications over many years. Besides, her practice covers prosecution and litigation in German and international trade mark law, unfair competition law, copyright law, IT contract law, licensing law and data protection Law. Andrea provides legal advice to German and international clients in individual issues as well as in interdisciplinary projects.

Since many years Andrea is an active member of the Geographical Indications Committee of ECTA and regularly publishes on various topics related to IP. She gives lectures and maintains a professional exchange with national and foreign IP experts.