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Division 3.1 Legal Affairs and Patents

The staff of the legal department deal with all legal matters of the university, unless they concern personnel law or academic or study-related matters. The department also handles the university's invention and patent matters and is responsible for IP management

Team 3.1

Our tasks

  • Third-party funding agreements (in particular research and development agreements, cooperation agreements, consortium agreements for Horizon Europe)
  • Non-disclosure agreements/NDA/MTA
  • Advice on the Nagoya Protocol
  • University law matters
  • Legal issues relating to the student body
  • Civil law matters (in particular general contractual matters, sales law incl. breach of contract, tenancy law, copyright law)
  • Claims and insurance matters
  • Litigation in civil and administrative law matters
  • Dunning, enforcement and insolvency matters
  • Advice on scholarship guidelines and processing of scholarship payments
  • IP management
    (in particular invention and patent matters)

 

Document collection

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Our team

Ass. iur. Denise Nalop

Head of department

Contact

Denise.Nalop@zv.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740-4853
AR-NA 412
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Monday - Friday: mornings

Ass. iur. Sandra Schöler

Deputy Head of Department, Legal Advisor, Third-Party Funding Contracts

Contact

Sandra.Schoeler@zv.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740-5005
AR-NA 413
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Tuesday - Friday: mornings

Ass. iur. Ines Ratay

Employee - legal advisor, third-party funding contracts

Contact

ines.ratay@zv.uni-siegen.de
0271 740 5289
AR-NA 413
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Monday - Friday: mornings

Ass. iur. Seraphina Frevel

Legal advisor, university law matters, legal issues of the constituted student body

Contact

seraphina.frevel@zv.uni-siegen.de
0271-7405187
AR-NA 415
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Monday - Friday: all day

Ass. iur. Elke Dausacker

Legal advisor, civil law matters, insurance

Contact

Elke.Dausacker@zv.uni-siegen.de
0271-7404854
Availability:

Monday - Wednesday: all day

Friday : mornings

Katja Freund

Scholarship processing employee

Contact

katja.freund@zv.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740-4823
AR-NA 411
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Tuesday - Thursday: mornings

Monika Rekoskum

Employee Office Dept. 3.1/3.2

Contact

monika.rekoskum@zv.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740-4861
AR-NA 411
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Tuesday : all day
Wednesday-Friday: mornings

Christian Piel

Employees Inventions and patent matters

Contact

Christian.Piel@zv.uni-siegen.de
+49 271 740-5052
AR-NA 410
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2a
Availability:

Monday - Thursday: mornings

 

 

Our services

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Confidentiality agreement required?

German

The legal department team provides you with samples and checks the GHVs/NDAs of your contractual partners.

Cooperation agreement needed?

German/English

Efre, ZIM, Horizon 2020, DAAD, BMFTR funding lines, etc.pp.... Regardless of the type of research cooperation, we take care of contract drafting and review partner contracts.

Do you have questions about insurance cover at the University of Siegen?

The university has extensive insurance cover, including public liability insurance, electronics insurance and drone insurance. In the event of personal injury, employees and students are insured by the NRW State Accident Insurance Fund while carrying out their duties.

If you have any questions about the scope of the insurance cover, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you require special insurance for a project, we will work with you to arrange an appropriate insurance contract.

Have you already had a claim? Then please send us the necessary information. We will take care of the settlement with the insurer and check the assertion of claims against third parties.

Patents Service IP-Consulting

German/English

Everything you always wanted to know about IP but were afraid to ask - free and confidential advice on all aspects of intellectual property. Research and work results in the context of copyright, industrial property rights such as patents, trademarks or designs. Advice for inventors, start-up advice, general advice for all members of the University of Siegen.

Patents Service Notifications of inventions and other work results

German/English

General advice on all aspects of intellectual property, industrial property rights such as patents, trademarks or designs, advice for inventors, receipt and processing of invention disclosures.

Patents Service Notifications of inventions and other work results by students

German/English

General advice on all aspects of intellectual property, industrial property rights such as patents, trademarks or designs, advice for inventors, receipt and processing of invention disclosures.

Patents Service Statistics

German/English

Statistical evaluations of inventions, patent applications and granted patents

Questions about the Nagoya Protocol?

Are you planning research with genetic resources and are not sure whether the Nagoya Protocol is relevant for you?

Service page R&D contract

German/English

Is a contract in the pipeline? Would you like to submit an offer for contract research or other services to a company, a public authority or a research partner? Read here how best to proceed (((or contact our contract lawyers directly:

 



 

Denise Nalop, Tel: (0271) 740 - 4853, denise.nalop@zv.uni-siegen.de

Ines Ratay Tel. (0271) 740-5289, ines.ratay@zv.uni-siegen.de

Sandra Schöler, Tel.: (0271) 740 - 5005, sandra.schoeler@zv.uni-siegen.de