the representation of patent pools and owners of standard-essential patents in complex patent infringement proceedings as well as the related antitrust issues and enforcement proceedings. In...

opposition was based on the grounds of inadmissible extension, lack of novelty and lack of inventive step. Document D1 was cited to substantiate lack of novelty, and the opponent argued that the...

dismissed the complaints by decisions of May 9, 2017. On appeal, however, the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe did not follow the Regional Court’s construction of claim 1 of EP ‘307; instead,...

nullity proceedings before the Unified Patent Court, German courts as well as in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office. His main...

current version of Article 15a RPBA (item 5.). We welcome all efforts to limit the impact of the Corona pandemic on the conduct and completion of proceedings before the Boards of Appeal. The use...

the complete range of drafting patents, guiding the patent application along the prosecution path up to the stage of patent granting as well as any subsequent opposition proceedings. He assists...

negotiations to reach an amicable solution of the matter had failed, court proceedings on the merits became unavoidable. In the further course of the proceedings before the Munich District Court...

technology. Another focus of his is the enforcement of IP rights in patent infringement and (parallel) nullity proceedings before the Federal Patent Court as well as in the context of expert...

Federal Patent Court, and the German Federal Court of Justice. One of the main areas of his patent prosecution practice relates to the patentability of software and other computer-implemented...

registration, enforcement and protection of trademarks and related advice, including unfair competition, design and copyright matters. As a member of a team of attorneys-at-law Christine Fluhme...

he contributes to patent infringement proceedings and parallel nullity proceedings. During his studies of physics, he acquired broad expert knowledge in the fields of medical physics,...

clients with a focus on patent litigation. As a member of a mixed team of attorneys-at-law and patent attorneys, she represents clients in proceedings before national courts as well as the...

Harvard, he already is one of the pioneers at the newly established European Unified Patent Court. With over 20 years of experience in IP, he has handled several hundreds of patent disputes...

2020, the new Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA 2020) became effective. They particularly rendered the rules on late submissions more stringent as compared to those of the RPBA...

German and international clients on issues of patent litigation and technology-related copyright law, competition law and antitrust law. He is involved in proceedings relating to patent and...

Fabian Laude’s main areas of practice include drafting patent applications and assisting clients in examination proceedings before the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark...

case law of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, which in these cases assumes an exception to the demonstration to the satisfaction of the court of the sufficient certainty of legal validity...

professional patent consultant and on knowledge gained from a large number of cases successfully concluded in various fields of Intellectual Property: Patent prosecution, expert opinions...