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thOmas rickert

EXPERTISE

Thomas Rickert advises and represents national and international clients, especially private sector companies. His main focus is on domain law, trademark law, data protection law, copyright law and IT law.

SHORT RESUME

  • Legal studies and legal clerkship in Marburg, Cologne and Bonn
  • Lawyer and managing director of the firm since 1999
  • Since 2002 managing partner of the law firm, which was renamed Schollmeyer & Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH and finally Rickert Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH

ENGAGEMENT

  • Head of the Names & Numbers Forum of the eco- Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V. (www.eco.de)
  • Co-chair of the CCWG accountability at ICANN, which has developed and continues to work on the accountability reforms at ICANN as part of the IANA Stewardship Transition
  • 2011-2015: member of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org)
  • Speaker at the Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK) Bonn Rhein-Sieg
  • 2002-2005: chief executive officer of the INHOPE Association (www.inhope.org), the holding organisation of complaints departments for receiving information on illegal Internet content

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • English

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Pornographie und Volksverhetzung – Jugendschutz im Internet" (“Die Schulverwaltung spezial, Medienkompetenz III” - Professional journal for school administration, ISSN 1438-1907, 2002)
  • "Two articles introducing eco’s hotline and on INHOPE" (TV-Diskurs, Nomos Verlag 2002)
  • "Sperren und Blocken illegaler Inhalte im Internet" (Online 2002 Kongressdoumentation, ISBN 2-89077-234-X)
  • "Hotlines and the History of INHOPE: The Association of Internet Hotline Providers" (in “Medical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation” by Cormac Callanan and Thomas Rickert, GW Medical Publishing, Inc., 2005, ISBN-10: 1-8780060-71-6)
  • "Die neuen Top Level Domains werden kommen" (Ein Appell Multimedia und Recht, MMR-Aktuell 2011, 321179)
  • "Schutz von Kennzeichenrechten bei der Einführung neuer TLDs
    - Die ICANN-Rechtsschutzmechanismen im Überblick"
    (Multimedia und Recht, MMR 2012, 444ff)
  • eco GDPR Domain Industry Playbook
  • eco Registrar Atlas 2012
  • eco Registrar Atlas 2013
  • eco Registrar Atlas 2014
  • “A Quiet Global Revolution”
    (in dotmagazine.online (2017))
  • “Collaboration AcAcross the Atlantic: Data Protection & Internet Policy – Transcript"
    (in dotmagazine.online (2017))
  • Co-Autor des “eco GDPR Domain Industry Playbook” (2018)
  • “The WHOIS Wars”
    (in dotmagazine.online (2019))
  • “Legality, Securitys & Ethics in the Digitalized World”
    (in dotmagazine.online (2019) )

LECTURES

  • Many lectures on IT security, youth media protection, e-commerce and data protection

MEMBERSHIPS

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We give your company a jump start
Avoid legal risks when setting up your company. We will help you to choose the most suitable form of company for you, help you to protect your ideas and trademarks and review or draft contracts and terms and conditions.
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Data protection
We ensure DS-GVO compliance in your company and support you in assessing and reporting data protection incidents.
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Labour Law
The preparation of and defence against dismissals is one of the main focuses of our work in individual employment law. We accompany upcoming restructuring measures in the company with an interdisciplinary team.
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DOMAIN LAW
We help you to find the right domain among the many top-level domains and support you during registration. In the event of domain name disputes, we advise you out of court and represent you in arbitration proceedings and before the ordinary courts.
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