Bra­ve new world? Legal chal­lenges in the auto­mo­ti­ve industry

Auto­mo­ti­ve sup­p­ly indus­try 2019

25 to 27 Sep­tem­ber at Klos­ter Hornbach

In the field of ’new mobi­li­ty’ the auto­mo­ti­ve indus­try is among the most inno­va­ti­ve sec­tors in Ger­ma­ny. This is also reve­a­led by a glan­ce at the cur­rent list of the top patent appli­cants at the Ger­man Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA). Num­ber One among the most acti­ve patent appli­cants is Robert Bosch GmbH. That’s just one more reason to take a clo­ser look at ’new mobi­li­ty’ from the supplier’s point of view with Dr. Jean-Stephan Obst:

• new mobi­li­ty
• auto­no­mous driving
• smart­phone wars in the auto­mo­bi­le industry

Dr. Jean-Stephan Obst stu­di­ed law at Saar­land Uni­ver­si­ty from 1993–1998. From 1995 to 1997 he com­ple­ted a two-year, inte­gra­ted tri­la­te­ral stu­dy cour­se (in the Lille-Warwick pro­gram­me) in Eng­land, Ger­ma­ny and France. In 1997 he went inde­pen­dent as a trai­ner in the field of com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on, IT and law and co-founded GoTrai­ning GbR. Having com­ple­ted his trai­nee­ship as a lawy­er at the Hig­her Regio­nal Court (OLG) in Saar­brü­cken with the empha­sis on com­mer­cial law, Dr. Obst did his doc­to­ra­te at Saar­land Uni­ver­si­ty on ‘The rights of mino­ri­ty share­hol­ders in stock cor­po­ra­ti­ons lis­ted on the Stock Exch­an­ge’ (‘Rech­te des Min­der­heits­ak­tio­närs im bör­sen­no­tier­ten Akti­en­kon­zern’). From 2003 to 2005 he was a trai­nee at Robert Bosch GmbH with stints in the cen­tral legal depart­ment, the per­son­nel depart­ment of Bosch Spain, con­trol­ling and auto­mo­ti­ve sales. This was fol­lo­wed by posi­ti­ons as legal coun­sel (until the end of 2006) and seni­or legal coun­sel (until Octo­ber 2011) in the field of auto­mo­ti­ve and IT law. From August 2008 to Janu­ary 2009, moreo­ver, he was depu­ty head of the French legal depart­ment at Robert Bosch France S.à.r.l. From 2011 to 2017 Dr. Obst was head of the legal depart­ment at Bosch Ther­mo­tech­nik GmbH, and from 2015 onwards he was also Gene­ral Coun­sel for West Euro­pe. Today, he is head of law in the mobi­li­ty solu­ti­ons divi­si­on at Robert Bosch GmbH. Dr. Obst speaks Ger­man, French, Eng­lish and Spanish.

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