this substance in Germany under the designation LYRICA ® . Generics for Pregabalin had been available in Germany since 2014. The patent proprietor authorized the Applicant to assert patent...

parties that the patent proprietor had already commercialized a software product embodying the subject-matter of claim 1 as granted. The opposition division nevertheless rejected the opposition,...

registered trademark DI GIOIA, addressed a cease-and-desist letter to L’Oréal’s distributors in Germany, requesting to immediately stop distribution and destroy all ACQUA DI GIOIA perfume...

lt/Patentanwältin” (Patent Attorney) was granted in Germany. The partners and employees working as Patent Attorneys for BARDEHLE PAGENBERG are all members of the Chamber of Patent Attorneys in...

referendum, the public was warned that a Brexit would ruin the timeline for the Unitary Patent (UP) & Unified Patent Court (UPC) system due to come into force in early 2017. After the...

the legal and factual framework of opposition proceedings established by the notice of opposition 8 , it also deprives the proprietor of a fair chance to have his patent maintained in an...

German Patent Law (parliamentary paper 19/25821) as amended by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (parliamentary paper 19/30498; “Patent Law Modernization Act” below). The Pa...

Regional Court considers recall of the patent-infringing products against reimbursement of the purchase price disproportionate if the customer can be provided a patent-free product as a less...

“purchasing” the patent family (patent families) which the patent-in-suit is part of – allow for reliable conclusions regarding the revenues or profits to be expected specifically in Germany...

is producing and distributing fashionable headphones in over 90 countries worldwide, including Germany. Since 2012, Zound Industries struggles with several competitors (inter alia, Lidl)...

Partner) Dr. Hans Wegner (German and European Patent Attorney, Partner) Simon Schopper (Attorney-at-Law) Dr. Jochen Baumann (German and European Patent Attorney) Christof Wolpert (in-house;...

former German design law and published on July 25, 2001, claiming priority from a Japanese design patent application. Overall, this dispute is remarkable for three reasons: First , this case is...

international clients in patent infringement and validity proceedings before national courts, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office, and the Unified Patent Court....

some interesting comments on the question of the extent to which an opposition decision is equivalent to the description of the patent – clarifies that such legal disputes will continue to be...

For a patent granted in the course of year 4, the renewal fees for the application and the patent sum up over the 20 years’ full term of the patent, as follows: D. Comments For a typical patent...

G1/22 concerns opposition appeal proceedings re European patent EP 1 755 674, whereas the decision G2/22 concerns appeal proceedings re a divisional application of the opposed patent’s patent...

assumption of inaccurate prior art described in the patent by mistake. This is because the Plaintiff as patent proprietor should know his own patent and its content in detail. Pursuant to the...

d companies (Penta Shoes S.L. and Calzados D’Simons S.L.) before the Regional Court of Cologne (Germany), arguing that the challenged sandals infringe its copyrights on its basic sandal models...