I graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague in 1988, where I also received a doctorate in law. Since the beginning of 1990, I have been involved in advising start-up entrepreneurs within the Association of Czechoslovak Entrepreneurs. After that, I worked briefly in a consulting firm focused on providing legal and economic services to entrepreneurs, and in 1993 I became a commercial lawyer registered with the Chamber of Commercial Lawyers of the Czech Republic. I have been working as an attorney since 1996. Since 1997, I have been engaged in publishing and lecturing activities with a focus on industrial rights and licenses in business, know-how protection and economic competition, while systematically deepening my professional knowledge in this area. In 2019, I received the MPA management degree in research, development and innovation.

 

In 1999, I completed a three-month professional internship in the Federal Republic of Germany for lawyers from Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the application of German law and the law of the European Union. In 1999, I completed a two-year specialization study of intellectual property rights at the Institute of Industrial Law Education at the Industrial Property Office in Prague. In 2002, as part of the ČAK educational program, I participated in a study trip to the Commercial Court in Vienna and the International Court of Arbitration in Vienna. In 2003, I completed a week-long study program in France at the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, focusing on the court's decision-making practice and the enforceability of its decisions. In 2003, I completed a week-long study program in France at the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, focusing on the court's decision-making practice and the enforceability of its decisions. In 2003, I participated in a study trip to the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, focusing on the issues of European law in relation to administrative justice. In 2004 - 2012, I worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Law at the Banking Institute of the University of Prague (BIVŠ), where I specialized in the issues of industrial property rights and licenses. From 2005 to 2017, I was a member of the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in Prague. Since 1999, I have been actively cooperating with the Czech Bar Association, where I worked in the section for EU law, international law and international relations from 1999 to 2008, and in 2005 to 2006 I worked as an expert of the Czech Bar Association in the CCBE Competition Law Committee in Brussels. In 2018, I became a member of the Intellectual Property Section.

 

In 2017, I initiated the establishment of a family consulting, advisory and educational company JUDr. David KARABEC, s.r.o., in whose activities I participate as an executive and expert guarantor of educational courses. The company operates its own Intellectual Property Protection Training Center, in which we focus on educating employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, colleges, universities and research institutes in the field of copyright and industrial property protection, know-how, trade secrets, licenses and unfair competition.

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In 2019, I completed a two-year specialization Master of Public Administration in Research, Development and Innovation (MPA VVI) and in the same year I became a member of the prestigious Czech Association of Inventors and Innovators. In 2021, I completed postgraduate studies (LL.M.) in alternative dispute resolution (out-of-court dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration), completed specialized mediation and negotiation courses for patent attorneys and became Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Intellectual Property Magazine. In 2022, I became a member of the Legislative Board of the Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Tradesmen of the Czech Republic. In my professional law practice, I mainly focus on issues of industrial and copyright rights, licenses, protection of know-how and trade secrets, unfair competition, IP mediations and procedural representation of clients in these areas of law.

 

I am also the founder of the IP Mediation Center Prague, a registered institute that has been actively promoting alternative dispute resolution (ADR) options in the field of intellectual property protection since 2021, training specialized mediators in this area, promoting mediation in the field of science, research and innovation and between small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as gathering knowledge support from WIPO, EUIPO and the Office for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the field of alternative dispute resolution.

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