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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

provide you with an overview of preliminary injunction proceedings in Germany, but also with practical insights into the risks and benefits of such proceedings in the context of litigating...

the case law of the Higher Regional Court of Munich, in favor of MOLEX Deutschland GmbH at second instance (6 U 4009/19). In the preliminary injunction proceedings, the Higher Regional Court of...

related to anchor defendant jurisdiction, the availability of anti-anti-suit injunctions, penalty proceedings for violation of an injunction, the number of admissible amendments in an...

In proceedings before the IP Office of the United Kingdom (UKIPO), representation by a lawyer or trademark attorney is not mandatory. However, parties to such proceedings must have an address...

before the Dusseldorf Court of Appeals (file-no. I-2 U 5/13). These infringement appeal proceedings are expected to be stayed in view of the revocation of the German part of EP ‘028 by the...

Safety-Critical Systems Research Group of the computer research department of the University of Tübingen, he also has extensive knowledge of the development and verification of safety-critical...