As of June 2001 until present, Dr. Manfred Mayer (* June 8, 1950) holds the position as Director of the Office for Legal Issues in the Information- and Telecommunication Sector and eGovernment in the Bavarian State Chancellery. He oversees the Bavarian eGovernment initiative, the operational level of the IT-consolidation projects as well as the cooperations with foreign states in the field of eGovernment. Following law school and graduation from the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law with an Ph.D. in patent law, Dr. Manfred Mayer worked from 1977 to 1988 as a judge with the trial county court of Munich and as a public prosecutor with the district attorney’s office. Moreover, from 1983 to 1996 he was in …