Federal Court of Justice: quick release skewer – Campagnolo’s legacy The Federal Court of Justice had to decide whether the patent in suit was novel and inventive compared to quick release skewer known from the prior art due to [...]
Austria is close to Ratification of the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court In its report of 11 November, the Parliamentary Committee on Research, Innovation and Digitisation of the Republic of Austria has [...]
Juve Patent Ranking 2021: Kather Augenstein again among the top IP boutique firms and leading IP specialists in Germany Every year, law firms are subjected to comprehensive evaluations in rankings. We are very pleased that our boutique [...]
Video: Lecture by Dr. Peter Kather and Dr. Christof Augenstein at this year's Autumn Seminar of the German Patent Attorneys Association This year's autumn seminar of the BDPA on the topic "Patent infringement in focus - [...]
Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf: Patent infringing offering by naming a reference object and other concerns OLG Düsseldorf, judgement of 15.07.2021 - 15 U 42/20 In its decision, the 15th Senate had to solve several problems [...]
Dr Benjamin Pesch is awarded "Rising Star 2021" by the leading specialist guide Managing Intellectual Property We are pleased to announce that Dr Benjamin Pesch has been recognized as a "Rising Star 2021" in the recently published edition of [...]
Our Partner Dr. Christof Augenstein in the Global IP Matrix with his latest updates about the Unified Patent Court Featured in the Global IP Matrix Issue 11 this year, the AIPPI World Congress Online takes place from 15 to [...]
Temporal urgency for preliminary injunctions on a modified embodiment In a recent decision (HRC Düsseldorf (2. Zivilsenat), decision of 27 May 2021 – 2 U 2/21; GRUR-RS 2021, 13946 - Insulinpumpe), the Higher Regional Court (HRC) Dusseldorf [...]
Dr Peter Kather is panelist at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Symposium on the topic "Patentability of Plants and Animals: Scope for Action and Need for Reform?" On July 8, 2021, the Federal Ministry [...]
Last Friday (09.07.2021), the German Federal Constitutional Court published its decision, which had been awaited for weeks, on the further constitutional complaints against the ratification of the UPC, the final building block for the launch of the Unified European [...]