Legal associate
Dipl.-Jur. Dorothea Utermöhlen, LL.M.
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Dorothea Utermöhlen is a qualified lawyer and has worked for the lexICT group since January 2025. She is also a research assistant at the Institute for Legal Informatics at Leibniz University Hannover.
Her work centres on artificial intelligence and new technologies, data subject rights, intellectual property law and data protection management. Her master’s thesis addresses the patentability of AI-related inventions and liability for them.
Areas of interest
- Artificial intelligenceUse of AI systems, training data and the duties under the AI Act.
- Data subject rightsAccess, erasure and objection, including where a request pursues another aim.
- Intellectual propertyPatents, trade marks and copyright at the border with technology.
- Data protection managementRecords, impact assessments and the evidence that it all works.
Career
since 01/2025
Consultant in the lexICT group
2023 and 2024
Master's programme in Information and Communication Technology Law, EULISP, Hannover and Oslo
Thesis on the patentability of, and liability for, inventions in the field of artificial intelligence.
since 09/2023
Research assistant at the Institute for Legal Informatics, Leibniz University Hannover
07/2023
First state examination in law and Bachelor of Laws in IT and IP law
Thesis on the unfair competition and trade mark liability of online platforms under the Digital Services Act.
2019 and 2020
Year abroad at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
since 05/2017
Student assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Eichelberger, Institute for Legal Informatics
since 10/2016
Law studies at Leibniz University Hannover