German Federal Patent Court of November 17, 2010 to fully uphold High Point’s European Patent 0 522 772 in Germany, essential for the UMTS-standard, is a milestone in asserting this patent...

(attorney-at-law) and Dr. Axel Berger (patent attorney) will focus on recent case law developments in Germany and compare them to the emerging practice at the Unified Patent Court. In...

a supplier that sells patent-infringing products to a customer abroad who, in turn, delivers these products to Germany is jointly responsible for a patent infringement in Germany if they...

against the German part of the European Patent 2 171 673 B 1 (“ patent-in-suit ”) of Appy Risk Technologies Ltd. (“ Appy ”) before the German Patent Court. The patent-in-suit relates to the...

revocation of the patent in opposition or national validity proceedings. Therefore, we propose establishing a method for quality control which regularly checks opposition and opposition appeal...

challenged the validity of EP 1 428 470 by an opposition at the European Patent Office (EPO). However, independent claim 1 as granted was maintained by the Opposition Division of the EPO by its...

Under the European Patent Convention and the German Patent Act, the validity of any granted European or German patent can be challenged. Due to the possibilities to file either an opposition or...

the “Android” operating system. To put it briefly, the patent-in-suit concerns the processing and sending of overly long short messages. The patented invention is of particular value to the end...

legal validity of the patent-in-suit justifying the issuance of a preliminary injunction can generally only be assumed if the patent-in-suit has already survived first-instance opposition or...

and cross-border patent litigation. Influential rankings confirm his reputation as one of Germany’s leading patent litigators. Tobias Wuttke’s expertise stems from hundreds of patent...

opinions, patent application drafting and prosecution as well as opposition procedures. Her fields of expertise include chemistry, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals. Margaux Esselin entered the...

molecules (the patent). 10x Genomics obtained an exclusive license to the patent. On May 17, 2023, the Court held that NanoString Technologies Inc. and NanoString Technologies GmbH infringe the ...

prosecuting patent applications, enforcing patent rights, licensing, managing and auditing patent portfolios, freedom-to-operate studies, patent infringement and validity litigation, including o...

in-situ detection of RNA molecules (the patent). 10x Genomics obtained an exclusive license to that patent from the patent owner President and Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard Corporation)....

digital image processing) and patent opposition and invalidity proceedings before the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trademark Office, and the Federal Patent Court. Together with...

dismisses the appeal of the patent proprietor and also substantially follows the German Federal Patent Court with respect to the grounds for its decision. By revoking the patent, the Board of...

Meike Müller’s practice involves patent prosecution as well as opposition proceedings before the European and German patent offices. She also acts for clients in patent litigation proceedings....

2018 by IMS in Germany based on a patent, which provides management of non-volatile memories by shifting zone boundaries in case of defective blocks. IMS alleged Micron to infringe the patent-in...