Our Managing Partner Miriam Kiefer LL.M. is a new member of the board of women in ip. What began in 2011 as a platform for women in intellectual property quickly developed into an international non-profit platform that was registered as a non-profit association in 2014.
Our partners Dr. Peter Kather and Dr. Christof Augenstein are pleased to explain once again the details of the patent infringement trial this year. The VPP seminar "The infringement trial" will take place from 19-21 September 2019 at the Maritim Hotel in Ulm.
The federal government is currently suggesting that it will wait for Brexit before the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is allowed to start. This is the result of an answer to a question from the FDP parliamentary group. In our opinion, however, the Federal Government is firmly bound to the will of Parliament and must implement the Ratification Act with the signature of the Federal President without delay.
In order to give everyone interested a comprehensive overview of the development of FRAND jurisprudence in Germany, we have compiled the most important decisions and published them on our homepage.
Our partners Dr Peter Kather, Dr Christof Augenstein, Alexander Haertel and Christopher Weber received awards in the eleventh edition of the Best Lawyers Ranking.
"IAM Patent 1000", the renowned patent media, praises our firm in the publication of the full edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Professionals 2019 - a guide that identifies the best patent experts around the world.
Kather Augenstein has once again been rewarded by the IP expert guide "Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS" in the field of patents.
New ways of protecting trade secrets The protection of trade secrets used to not be regulated uniformly in Europe. In June 2016, the EU Commission therefore issued a directive aimed at setting uniform standards throughout Europe. We had already reported [...]
On Friday, 29 March, the next UNION-IP Praxisgespräch will take place at the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice in Munich. This time the topic will be the auxillary claims in case of infringement of industrial property rights.
Kather Augenstein on the shortlist for the Managing IP Awards Germany Managing IP has published the shortlist for the EMEA Awards 2019 and Kather Augenstein is on the shortlist in the category Germany: Patent Contentious. The awards are presented annually [...]