Philip Funke advises companies in the field of intellectual property and unfair competition law.

He specialises in particular in the field of trade mark law. His work includes the development of trademark protection strategies, the registration of trademarks as well as out-of-court and in-court disputes in trademark disputes and trademark infringements.

Philip studied law at Leibniz University Hanover and came into contact with intellectual property law at an early stage. Due to his high interest in this field, he took the university specialisation "IT Law and Intellectual Property Law".

During his legal clerkship, he expanded his previous knowledge and dealt extensively with the field of sports law under a renowned sports law specialist.

Tenzing

Osborne Clarke has advised European tech investor Tenzing on the acquisition of INCREASE YOUR SKILLS GmbH (IYS), a fast-growing cybersecurity training company, by its portfolio company MetaCompliance, read more.

VR Ventures / Redstone

Osborne Clarke has advised VR Ventures / Redstone on its investment in the seed funding round of start-up nuwo, read more.

VR Ventures/Redstone, coparion and Swiss Post Ventures

Osborne Clarke advises VR Ventures/Redstone, coparion and Swiss Post Ventures on ContractHero seed round, read more.

Redstone

Osborne Clarke has advised Redstone on its investment in the pre-seed financing round in health tech start-up eaze, read more.

Scout24

Osborne Clarke advises Scout24 on acquisition of Sprengnetter Group, read more.

VR Ventures / Redstone

Osborne Clarke advises VR Ventures / Redstone on investment in SaaS start-up Kertos, read more

Redstone

Osborne Clarke advises Redstone on financing round of Atlas Metrics, read more

Redstone

Osborne Clarke advises Redstone on its investment in Careloop, read more

CloudFactory

Osborne Clarke advises CloudFactory on acquisition of machine learning platform Hasty, read more