Dr. Jürgen Apel

Universities of Freiburg, Geneva and Münster

• Head of the specialist institutes for industrial property law, information technology and copyright and media law at the DAI – German Lawyers' Institute eV.
• Deputy Chairman of the Specialist Committee for Industrial Property Rights of the Hamm Bar Association (until 2023)
• Chairman of the Working Group on Competition and Trademark Law Westphalia Lippe e. V. (until 2018)
• GRUR – German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright.
• DAV – German Bar Association.
• BVMW – German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
• Marketing Club Münster/Osnabrück eV.
• Lions Club Münster Landois

• Apel/Grapperhaus, The Offline-Online Chaos – or how the European Commission threatens to harmonize the advertising market, WRP 1999, 1247
• Legal aspects of publishing websites, presentation at erfa iuK IT (June 25, 2009)
• Mobile Media and Law – On the EU Content Directive: Presentation at the Mobile Media Congress in Munich – (December 2008 and 2007)
• Defective Software and Law – A Case Study, Presentation at the Fraunhofer Institute ISS – Institute for Software and Systems Engineering in Dortmund (May 29, 2009)
• From Misleading to Information Burden – A Paradigm Shift? – Presentation at the 9th meeting of the "Competition Law" expert committee of the BDEW German Association of Energy and Water Industries in Duisburg (November 9, 2012)
• „"Legal situation & liability – The boss bears the risk! / What is the company allowed to do?" Presentation at the "WELT IT Security Conference" of the WELT Group in Berlin (September 6, 2012)
• Most-favored-nation clauses and competition DB 1976, 46
• Competition and Trademark Law DAI Script (May 2009)
• Apel/Große/Ruse – Trademark Law versus Domain Law – Festschrift for Otto Teplitzky – WRP 2000, 816
• Apel/Steden – „Copyright infringements by ad blockers on the Internet“, WRP 2001, 11
• Apel, The widespread trend towards ad blockers, Festschrift for Hertin (2000)