facilitate the summary review by courts of lower instances of the prospects of success of nullity proceedings in the context of a stay of infringement proceedings. To generate real added value...

despite the decisions of the German Constitutional Court in the last years focusing on the importance of the principle of equality of arms and the right to be heard in PI proceedings, under...

obligation to request a stay of proceedings pursuant to Sec. 251 (1) German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO) or, as the case may be, suggest a mutually agreed suspension of the legal proceedings...

n. 1. Summary of Facts and Submissions Decision J 01/24 concerns the admissibility of filing a divisional European patent application after the publication of the mention of the grant of the...

The Regional Court of Düsseldorf stayed the infringement proceedings until the rendering of a decision in the opposition appeal proceedings. Upon appeal of the Plaintiff, the stay was upheld by...

appeal proceedings before the German Federal Court of Justice. Since the start of the UPC system on June 1, 2023, he has also represented clients in infringement and nullity proceedings before...

possible to continue revocation proceedings – proceedings for the declaration of revocation due to a lack of genuine use, in particular – in the form of adversarial proceedings before the GPTO...

on patent litigation proceedings, nullity proceedings and nullity appeal proceedings at the German Federal Court of Justice, as well as opposition and opposition appeal proceedings. His...

previous case law of Higher Regional Court of Munich, judgement of July 26, 2012, case 6 U 1260/12, BeckRS 2012, 16104; following case law of Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf, judgment of...

clients in matters of patent and utility model law in particular. The main areas of her practice include providing legal advice and representing clients in national infringement proceedings and...

understaffing of the Boards of Appeal does not promise any change of direction of the prevailing practice. The continuing call of the President of the EPO for increasing efficiency of the Boards...

risk of losing sight of a reasonable trade-off between predictability and flexibility required in patent granting proceedings. 1. General comments The proposed revision of the Rules of Procedure...

Martin Hohgardt’s main areas of practice involve patent prosecution, patent nullity proceedings, opposition proceedings and patent litigation in various technical fields. His technical fields...

patents as a member of our expert team. A focus of his work is on patent infringement proceedings, especially regarding telecommunications (mobile communications, xDSL), cross-border proceedings...

timeline of EPO opposition proceedings • How to avoid procedural pitfalls • Misconceptions when arguing (lack of) inventive step • Filing of amended claims (auxiliary requests) • Oral proceeding...

overview of patent litigation proceedings before the Unified Patent Court. The new court system opens up a wide range of strategic options, e.g. regarding choice of venue and language of proceed...

patents as a member of our expert team. A focus of his work is on patent infringement proceedings, especially regarding telecommunications (mobile communications, xDSL), cross-border proceedings...